http://www.evga.com/forums/(c) EVGA Forums30On my PNY Verto GeForce 9600 GT video card, the fan is about to go dead soon. It's making a lot of noice and got worse over the last few days. I'm looking for either a replacement fan that is better then the standard OEM fan (really cheap made) orhttp://www.evga.com/forums/fb.ashx?m=241551Wed, 17 Mar 2010 13:21:41 GMTYou should definately be seeing an improvement over the 7600 GT, providing there's no other issue as you maybe suspecting..Download Driver Sweeper to remove any&nbhttp://www.evga.com/forums/fb.ashx?m=241362Wed, 17 Mar 2010 11:33:53 GMTYou should definately be seeing an improvement over the 7600 GT, providing there's no other issue as you maybe suspecting..Download Driver Sweeper to remove any leftovers frohttp://www.evga.com/forums/fb.ashx?m=241350Wed, 17 Mar 2010 11:28:35 GMT Very strange, my current system im running with a Intel E8400 at 3.0Ghz and I have DDR2 800 2Gb with a 9800 GTX+ and im having no issues with those games except for WOW and Heroes of Might &amp; Magic V . I don't have either of thosehttp://www.evga.com/forums/fb.ashx?m=241094Wed, 17 Mar 2010 08:59:15 GMTVery strange, my current system im running with a Intel E8400 at 3.0Ghz and I have DDR2 800 2Gb with a 9800 GTX+ and im having no issues with those games except for WOW and Heroes of Might &amp; Magic V . I don't have either of those games.http://www.evga.com/forums/fb.ashx?m=241065Wed, 17 Mar 2010 08:39:15 GMT Your CPU-Z says you are at 1.8 GHz on your processor. Was it in a power saving mode when that was taken? You know, I don't know. I wasn't doing anything different than I am right now - typing this ohttp://www.evga.com/forums/fb.ashx?m=240900Wed, 17 Mar 2010 06:41:00 GMTYour CPU-Z says you are at 1.8 GHz on your processor. Was it in a power saving mode when that was taken?http://www.evga.com/forums/fb.ashx?m=240710Wed, 17 Mar 2010 03:21:49 GMTSometime last year I swapped my old EVGA 7600GT for a 9800 GTX+ 512MB, and since then I haven't really been seeing the performance gain that I would expect, and I'm not sure why. Specifically, I'm having FPS issues in games where I wouldn't think Ihttp://www.evga.com/forums/fb.ashx?m=240070Tue, 16 Mar 2010 19:54:36 GMTI removed the bridge entirely and it solved the problem with no loss in FPS. I have to admit it was an accident while playing musical cards - switching slots/testing each card individually, trying different bridges - I forgot to put a bridge back ohttp://www.evga.com/forums/fb.ashx?m=239708Tue, 16 Mar 2010 16:57:04 GMTI will assume this is what you are referring to? http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b120/xx_slayer27_xx/this.jpghttp://www.evga.com/forums/fb.ashx?m=238158Mon, 15 Mar 2010 21:46:48 GMTBut my video card says it has 2gb of memory... But it really has 1gb so i assume it is using my ram... which i don't want it to do! lol Where are you seeing this reported? There is no way that your video card hahttp://www.evga.com/forums/fb.ashx?m=237846Mon, 15 Mar 2010 19:06:57 GMTwell i am aware of the "no two cards" phenomenon, its just a little mind boggling that all I can achieve is a 50MHz overclock from stock wtihout any artifacts. But I guess first thing to do is fix my cooling then :)http://www.evga.com/forums/fb.ashx?m=237749Mon, 15 Mar 2010 18:14:08 GMTMy 9800 GTX had difficulty approaching 800MHz with consistent results..More often than not it would freeze or give me an error..I took the card apart and replaced the original garbage TIM with MX-3 on the GPU and all the thermal pads (they're jhttp://www.evga.com/forums/fb.ashx?m=237354Mon, 15 Mar 2010 14:34:40 GMTNo two cards are the same. I used to own a 8800GTS that couldn't run much more than 30mhz higher on the core and 100mhz higher on the memory. Meanwhile I saw some people getting 200mhz higher. That's pretty much just the way it is. You buy a card fhttp://www.evga.com/forums/fb.ashx?m=237163Mon, 15 Mar 2010 13:04:49 GMTGPU Overclocking Guide I can't overclock as high as others who have the same card. Why is this? Not all cards are the same, some overclock further than others. Wathttp://www.evga.com/forums/fb.ashx?m=237133Mon, 15 Mar 2010 12:51:20 GMTSo I have been messing with EVGA's Precision and trying to at least get 800 MHz out of my EVGA 9800GTX+ 512 MB, but as soon as I get to anything past 770 MHz I get stupid amount of artifacts in atitool. I have 2 of those puppies in SLI and I do have cardhttp://www.evga.com/forums/fb.ashx?m=237079Mon, 15 Mar 2010 12:29:39 GMTIf you have been playing BFBC2, sometimes when shutting down the game, the .exe is still running in the background. Wonder if that was keeping your card up all night?http://www.evga.com/forums/fb.ashx?m=236851Mon, 15 Mar 2010 10:45:01 GMTSometimes certain games can cause the card to not downclock after gaming. It's just a bug. Rebooting almost always solves it.http://www.evga.com/forums/fb.ashx?m=236838Mon, 15 Mar 2010 10:34:15 GMTThe card will downclock during 2D mode, so if you have any application running which the drivers detect as a 3D app, then the card will not downclock.http://www.evga.com/forums/fb.ashx?m=236175Sun, 14 Mar 2010 23:46:14 GMTI run dual 9800gtx+ on a 780i mb and I had the same problem. Using the SLI bridge (flexible 2way) the screen would flicker (only in fullscreen modes) in redish hues; if I changed the SLI bridge to the other connector it would flicker in the sahttp://www.evga.com/forums/fb.ashx?m=235923Sun, 14 Mar 2010 20:53:00 GMTCan you try another card in your rig or try your card in a friend's rig ?..Do you have a decent PSU ? Maybe try another one (Minimum recommended system power supply = 400w with +12 Volt current rating of 26 Amps). That would be my next avenue ofhttp://www.evga.com/forums/fb.ashx?m=235515Sun, 14 Mar 2010 17:13:31 GMTWell it crashed again. What I don't understand is it can somedays run for good 3 hours and other days it won't run 10 minutes.http://www.evga.com/forums/fb.ashx?m=235233Sun, 14 Mar 2010 14:12:13 GMTWell right after I have to hard restart my system it reads around 75c. I have set the fan to 100% doesn't really change much of anything in the ways of my problem. I have reinstalled the driver will be trying it and will tell you what happened. Also I hahttp://www.evga.com/forums/fb.ashx?m=235146Sun, 14 Mar 2010 12:54:26 GMT90C may cause an issue but shouldn't..Try using EVGA Pecision to get your load temps down some when gaming, I'd set the fan to 100% (FYI, 105C is your max. GPU temp)..Absolutely cancel ALL[/http://www.evga.com/forums/fb.ashx?m=235016Sun, 14 Mar 2010 11:29:19 GMTMy onboard is already off in bios my video card temps can go all the way to 90c when benchmarking but stay around anywhere from 65 c to 75 c. Oh did I mention I am running windows 7 if that makes any difference. I will try the driver sweeper but 7 instalhttp://www.evga.com/forums/fb.ashx?m=234967Sun, 14 Mar 2010 11:06:03 GMTWelcome to the forums omenx..First thing, you should make sure the onboard video is disabled in BIOS (most mobo's auto-disable it if a vid card is detected, but you should disable it manually anyway, if you haven't already)..Then uninstall the video drivhttp://www.evga.com/forums/fb.ashx?m=234923Sun, 14 Mar 2010 10:39:11 GMTI am experiencing this problem that when I am playing certain games (Borderlands, Dragon Age, Mass Effect, Saints row 2, Overlord 2, And Dawn of War.) my screen will artifact then lock up but sound continues. At first I suspected overheating so I ran evehttp://www.evga.com/forums/fb.ashx?m=234852Sun, 14 Mar 2010 09:51:47 GMTAhh ok..Actually I never hooked a TV up to a PC but I see there's some instructional videos on YouTube ya might scope out or maybe somebody else here can help ya..I guess using an HDMI cable is the way to go, dunno..TV Setup Wizard in NVIDIA Cohttp://www.evga.com/forums/fb.ashx?m=234193Sat, 13 Mar 2010 20:56:27 GMTBoth. Sorry for the confusion. At the moment, I have the DVI/VGA at the furthest from the s-video jack. I read somewhere that is necessary. I have the TV turned on. When I call the Nvidia Control Panel and select Display/Set Up Multiple Displays, whhttp://www.evga.com/forums/fb.ashx?m=234054Sat, 13 Mar 2010 19:18:13 GMTWhat exactly are you doing ?..Trying to use 2 monitors as implied in your first post or hook it up to the TV now ?http://www.evga.com/forums/fb.ashx?m=234026Sat, 13 Mar 2010 18:59:39 GMTI have the NV Control Panel on-screen. I have the s-vid connected between the 9500gt card and my TV. The TV is turned on. (Sony with S-video input, RCA and R/G-59U inputs). I have the computer monitor showing in the NV Control Panel as: Envision L22W898http://www.evga.com/forums/fb.ashx?m=233984Sat, 13 Mar 2010 18:34:09 GMTWelcome to the forums Mark..If you open the NVIDIA Control Panel and hit the F1 key or select "Help" then "NVIDIA Control Panel Help" will bring up the Help panel of course of course, with a wealth of information about allllllll kinds of things..Thttp://www.evga.com/forums/fb.ashx?m=233847Sat, 13 Mar 2010 16:32:41 GMTJust plug the monitors in and go... About the drivers, goto www.nvidia.com and download the latest ones. The 9500GT was released well before windows 7 so there are no windows 7 drivers on the disk, you need tohttp://www.evga.com/forums/fb.ashx?m=233702Sat, 13 Mar 2010 15:04:11 GMTI installed the EVGA 1 gig 9500 GT today. Set BIOS to PCI-e instead of 'internal'. Booted into Win7. Card was detected, video showed 800x600 on first run. When boot time finished, Wn7 found some (maybe) drivers. NO request was made for drivers/CD, downlohttp://www.evga.com/forums/fb.ashx?m=233612Sat, 13 Mar 2010 14:18:16 GMTIt doesn't matter what pins the bridge is on. As for bridges, just go to any PC tech store, almost all I have ever been to have had SLI / Crossfire bridges. If you can't find any, ebay has tons of them... [link=http://cgi.ebay.com/NEW-ASUShttp://www.evga.com/forums/fb.ashx?m=233584Sat, 13 Mar 2010 14:04:36 GMT I have 2 9800 GTX+ 512mb cards in SLI and I am getting the following result from 3dmark: 18432 , problem is I dont know if thats what I should expect or if I should be looking for higher numbers >.< What'shttp://www.evga.com/forums/fb.ashx?m=233511Sat, 13 Mar 2010 13:13:14 GMTThat depends alot on your OS and CPU also ..Your score is an overall system score..You can browse the benchmark results, select the criteria, search the results and compare your rig to other similar rigs.http://www.evga.com/forums/fb.ashx?m=233479Sat, 13 Mar 2010 12:58:14 GMTI have 2 9800 GTX+ 512mb cards in SLI and I am getting the following result from 3dmark: 18432 , problem is I dont know if thats what I should expect or if I should be looking for higher numbers >.<http://www.evga.com/forums/fb.ashx?m=233380Sat, 13 Mar 2010 11:53:11 GMTonly sli bridge I could find is at Best Buy as a part of a kit for 34$... I am not paying 34$ for something that costs less than 5$ to makehttp://www.evga.com/forums/fb.ashx?m=233242Sat, 13 Mar 2010 10:54:13 GMTNevermind!!! The video card downclocks now to 301MHz. It started last night for some reason. Its amazing that this post was up for almsot 4 days and not one person could give me a clue on why it wouldn't downclock on its own. I still dhttp://www.evga.com/forums/fb.ashx?m=233204Sat, 13 Mar 2010 10:40:58 GMTI think so, but try run it without the bridge.. it does work they just use the pci-e port to communicate, if it doesnt artifact pick up a new sli bridge (they dont cost much, do they? )http://www.evga.com/forums/fb.ashx?m=233179Sat, 13 Mar 2010 10:33:57 GMTit is the bridge, it happened again after I moved the case around for a sec, which then made me just jiggle the bridge just a tad and BAM no flicker... however atm my bridge is sitting on the rightmost pins on my 9800 GTX+ everything I have read online shttp://www.evga.com/forums/fb.ashx?m=232843Sat, 13 Mar 2010 07:16:20 GMTNo..His rig works perfectly fine..Right on par with similar systems..Will swaps cards with him sometime to find out for sure tho.http://www.evga.com/forums/fb.ashx?m=232705Sat, 13 Mar 2010 04:21:09 GMTTry play without the bridge, it works. Report back, if it does indeed come without flickering then it is the bridge, take care!http://www.evga.com/forums/fb.ashx?m=232683Sat, 13 Mar 2010 03:29:44 GMTand i spoke too soon. even though it went away, it is now back but not as bad as before... so i guess it could be the bridge i guess... or it could have been the loosening it up bit, guess i am back to the drawing board.http://www.evga.com/forums/fb.ashx?m=232104Fri, 12 Mar 2010 18:50:58 GMTwell I got it working by moving the sli bridge from the left most hookup to the right most, now sli is enabled and no flicker is there.http://www.evga.com/forums/fb.ashx?m=232046Fri, 12 Mar 2010 18:06:54 GMTWell I was getting flickering on two different machines in SLI and it wasn't because of a bridge problem. It happened under any 195.xx driver. So maybe you need to experiment with different driver releases and see what happens. If that doesn't work try thttp://www.evga.com/forums/fb.ashx?m=231822Fri, 12 Mar 2010 15:53:02 GMTI dont want any trolling on me, but i would try to find a good deal on a 5770. Asus preferably, if not xfx would do. Make sure you get the good cooling solution where the cooler goes across the whole card. If your more of a Nvidia fan then the 26http://www.evga.com/forums/fb.ashx?m=231232Fri, 12 Mar 2010 11:05:18 GMTAlright guys, thanks for the responses. Quite helpful and nice to see some input from both sides of the table. I always heard that there can be some trouble with some games in an sli setup, but was wondering if they still exist at this stagehttp://www.evga.com/forums/fb.ashx?m=231223Fri, 12 Mar 2010 11:01:02 GMTTWO bad bridges.... that would be pretty fed up if it was the case. I will try the loosening up the bridge thing after work tonight.http://www.evga.com/forums/fb.ashx?m=231103Fri, 12 Mar 2010 09:43:00 GMT