SLI main card

[rfcokilljoy]

Hi, i recently started using SLI (extremely impressed in performance and lack of stutter), but i was wondering if there was any way to make it so the bottom card (often labelled as number 2 in games/control panel), was the main one. I ask as the main card does seem to be taking more of the load than the second, and my top card is almost always 20 degrees hotter than the lower one. I was hoping to offset this somewhat by making the second card the one that does the most work.

 

Anyone know how? 

 

P.S i've plugged the display into the second card and ran it in sli from there, but "card 1" still was doing all the heavy lifting (basically it made no difference)

[hconverse02]

Swap the two cards in the motherboard...

 

EDIT: you can't get out of the temps from the two cards being so close together, so no theres not really a way to do it unless you watercool both cards so they perform (mostly) the same

[Lathlaer]

2 minutes ago, hconverse02 said:

Swap the two cards in the motherboard...

 

That will change nothing because the other card will be 20c hotter as is usually the case when both cards are with fans and not blower style.

[hconverse02]

Just now, Lathlaer said:

 

That will change nothing because the other card will be 20c hotter as is usually the case when both cards are with fans and not blower style.

Yeah i edited my post after I realized that and read the question.

[Lathlaer]

Anyway, is the load really that different between those cards? I find that most of the time I either have close to 100% on both cards and when lower, it's also both. Granted, since finishing my build I have only been tangling with titles that support SLI at least good if not very well.

[Lathlaer]

15 minutes ago, rfcokilljoy said:

P.S i've plugged the display into the second card and ran it in sli from there, but "card 1" still was doing all the heavy lifting (basically it made no difference)

DId you disable SLI first and then re-enable it after you plugged the monitor to the bottom card? 

[rfcokilljoy]

16 minutes ago, Lathlaer said:

DId you disable SLI first and then re-enable it after you plugged the monitor to the bottom card? 

i did yes

24 minutes ago, Lathlaer said:

Anyway, is the load really that different between those cards? I find that most of the time I either have close to 100% on both cards and when lower, it's also both. Granted, since finishing my build I have only been tangling with titles that support SLI at least good if not very well.

I'd say theres about 5% difference on average in most games, but up to like 30 in others

[Mick Naughty]

Plug monitor in second card, enable sli. Really easy. Do it with my 10th gen cards.

[rfcokilljoy]

15 minutes ago, Mick Naughty said:

Plug monitor in second card, enable sli. Really easy. Do it with my 10th gen cards.

As i said, this doesnt work. On my 10th gen cards

[Mick Naughty]

2 minutes ago, rfcokilljoy said:

As i said, this doesnt work. On my 10th gen cards

Do you have more than one monitor?

 

[rfcokilljoy]

54 minutes ago, Mick Naughty said:

Do you have more than one monitor?

 

i do not, i have only one hooked up (right now anyways)