thomaslindet

I'm in France, but thanks for the offer! The bridge works and I actually managed to get SLI working! But not the way I want it to... What I did is disconnect all existing drives from SATA and PCIe then found a random drive lying around to install a fresh copy of windows. Then, with only the 2 cards and 1 SATA SSD drive plugged into the board, BAM! SLI enables no worries. Pretty FireStrike scores I tell you! I tried again with only the PCIe drive and gfx cards plugged in and same issue as the beginning . So clearly, on this particular board, there seems to be an incompatibility between the kingston predator drive and running two card in SLI. Damn it! I'll have to do more research on this to see if I can find a workaround. But if anyone has anything to share on the subject, I'm all ears.

There's only 3 PCIe ports on the MB I think when they say quad SLI they mean 2 of those dual GPU cards. Manual says bottom PCIe is 4x so that won't do the trick for SLI I think. Being at the office right now (hopefully the boss doesn't read LTT aha!) I can't try finicking with the slots but i'll tonight for sure and follow up! Plugged in top card yup!

Thaaaanks for the speedy replies! Tried DDU + fresh install already. Where do I find those dam facebook drivers ? I want to run it a 600fps! Will try and find a new bridge. Silly things is because the cards are not the same width, i can't use one of those fancy hard/illuminated ones, BIOS is up-to-date. Have not seen any settings related to SLI in BIOS. No mention of it in the manual either (YES I did even read the manual...)

Hi all, After an entire night of raping google trying to understand why I can't get SLI working on my rig I resort to the collective brains of LTT for help. The issue is "simple": I just added another 980Ti to my config and I'm trying to enable SLI. The Nvidia settings panel shows everything right, detects the two cards and I have the option to enable SLI. I can select the option, I click apply and it's saying it's applying the changes ("multicolor gpu core" thingy showing up), Then screen goes black, monitor LED goes orange as if it had lost signal, stays like this for like 5 seconds and then the system reboots. After reboot, when I go in Nvidia control pannel, it says SLI is off. Both cards are functional, tested independently. I tried swapping them between PCIe ports. SLI bridge is in place, tried swapping fingers. Screen is plugged with Display Port cable, tried all ports on the card. So I'm like, what teh hell am I doing wrong ? 'cause either it's a doggy motherboard or I'm just being a massive derp and missing something. Or could it be a faulty SLI bridge ? It's new but it's been sitting in the mobo's box for years so I can't say for sure. Or some kind of PCI lane bottleneck ? I'm using all 6 sata ports of the chipset for drives/SSDs and the 3rd PCIe port is stuffed with a kingston predator drive. Thanks for the help guys! ps/ for the ones who want to know what I need a 980ti sli for ? you know, facebook, minesweeper and stuff. Config details: MSI GTX 980 TI 6GD5T OC Gigabyte GV-N98TWF3OC-6GD (Both are factory OCed to the same 1102Mhz core clock) i7 3770k @ 4,6Ghz Asus P8z77-v 4x4Go DDR3 1600MHz 1000W 80Plus Platinum PSU Windows 10 Pro x64 Nvidia Drivers 368.69 (latest, fresh clean install after removing the previous with DDU)