Gigabyte GTX G1 970 SLI set up

[HalfDeadPicasso]

Hello everyone, So today I add my second GTX 970 for a SLI. Before on Battlefield 4 on all High setting I would get about 85-104 FPS and now with my SLI its just stuck at 104 and it will not pass that. At times the FPS will drop if I look at the sky,to about 85-90 FPS. How can I fix this I have a 1440p 144Hz monitor.

 

Sorry here are my specs:

 

- Gigabyte GA-Z97X-UD5H ATX LGA1150 Motherboard

- Intel Core i5-4690K 3.5GHz Quad-Core Processor

- Kingston HyperX Fury Black 8GB (4 x 8GB) DDR3-1866 Memory

- Corsair CX 750W 80+ Bronze Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply

- Gigabyte GeForce GTX 970 4GB G1 Video Card SLI

[YT2002]

Hello everyone, So today I add my second GTX 970 for a SLI. Before on Battlefield 4 on all High setting I would get about 85-104 FPS and now with my SLI its just stuck at 104 and it will not pass that. At times the FPS will drop if I look at the sky,to about 85-90 FPS. How can I fix this I have a 1440p 144Hz monitor.

Try updating gpu drivers

[DannyRyu]

Hello everyone, So today I add my second GTX 970 for a SLI. Before on Battlefield 4 on all High setting I would get about 85-104 FPS and now with my SLI its just stuck at 104 and it will not pass that. At times the FPS will drop if I look at the sky,to about 85-90 FPS. How can I fix this I have a 1440p 144Hz monitor.

just SLI issues, its expected. you get frame drops and what not. also have you applied the BF4 SLI Profile?

check you're VRAM too if its going over 3.5gb

[SkilledRebuilds]

BF4 is ONE of the games that has quite LOW Texture memory usage , @ 1080p I'm barely using 2GB on Ultra 4xMSAA, I'd say a reinstall of his drivers may do the trick, usually the case for most performance issues.

[daonlypoo]

BF4 is ONE of the games that has quite LOW Texture memory usage , @ 1080p I'm barely using 2GB on Ultra 4xMSAA, I'd say a reinstall of his drivers may do the trick, usually the case for most performance issues.

I've got to second this.  Reinstall the drivers, make sure that your power option is set to high performance and not balanced, and I hope you're sure that your PSU was ready to handle SLI.  In short, reinstall, high performance, check your PSU.  If those don't work, then there might be a problem with the motherboard or one of the cards.  

[Commander_Z]

SLI not enabled properly??

Drivers??

[Kinda Bottlenecked]

Just to be sure, what's your pc spec?

[rik1254]

Are you just expecting too much?

Most benchmarks out there for 1440p60 say around 83FPS average.

[HalfDeadPicasso]

Just to be sure, what's your pc spec?

 

 

Just to be sure, what's your pc spec?

 

 

All the SLI setting are correct and its being recognized. Also I tried updating the drivers and it said they where up to date. Dose each card carry its own driver?

[HalfDeadPicasso]

Are you just expecting too much?

Most benchmarks out there for 1440p60 say around 83FPS average.

 

Are you just expecting too much?

Most benchmarks out there for 1440p60 say around 83FPS average.

 

Well with my single GTX 970 at high resolution 1440p I was getting about 85-100 dipping on the map. Now with 2 GTX 970's its just stuck at 104FPS on high settings. When I change it to ultra the FPS dropped to about 85-95FPS. I also ran a FuryX benchmark and that was stuck at 132FPS and my PC scored 7820. Whats a good benchmark I can use to see everything accurately?

[CalebTheEternal]

OK so I thought this was just with GSync, I have the same issue, I guess it's just a driver issue, 

[don_svetlio]

Has really NOBODY noticed the CX? SLI with a CX is a deathwish...

[CalebTheEternal]

Has really NOBODY noticed the CX? SLI with a CX is a deathwish...

I HAVE THE SAME THING! DON'T DO IT, IT IS TERRIBLE!!!

Also update, I just realized with the new driver update with SLI, in the "Manage 3D settings" it turned on VSync always AND it also turned the Maximize 3D performance OFF! Make sure you change those back if it changed them.

[rik1254]

Has really NOBODY noticed the CX? SLI with a CX is a deathwish...

 

It's not ideal, but it should just cut it providing there is no daisy chained molex adapters going to any of the cards.

[don_svetlio]

It's not ideal, but it should just cut it providing there is no daisy chained molex adapters going to any of the cards.

2 970s will really heat up the case - it's essentially a 600W PSU at this point

[CalebTheEternal]

It's not ideal, but it should just cut it providing there is no daisy chained molex adapters going to any of the cards.

No, it wont. It's a terrible PSU and no one should ever buy it. Take note from someone that actually has it!

 

And update on what I did: It worked but now I get HUGE lag spikes that take me down to 0 FPS.

[Jumper118]

i'm wondering if the cx psu's are only bad on 115v  :huh:. anyway, thats clearly not the problem with this as a psu does limit your fps. 

 

Well with my single GTX 970 at high resolution 1440p I was getting about 85-100 dipping on the map. Now with 2 GTX 970's its just stuck at 104FPS on high settings. When I change it to ultra the FPS dropped to about 85-95FPS. I also ran a FuryX benchmark and that was stuck at 132FPS and my PC scored 7820. Whats a good benchmark I can use to see everything accurately?

if you want to see if the sli is scaling properly, then just run a synthetic benchmark like firestrike. also check you gpu usage and cpu usage. your gpu's should be near enough 100% if they are being fully used. check all the setting in the nvidia control panel and also maybe try using a different program to display your frame rate as well. 

[HalfDeadPicasso]

2 970s will really heat up the case - it's essentially a 600W PSU at this point

Well I'm currently updating my PSU and going with the AX760 instead.