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passey

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Just bought 2nd GTX 570 HD SC for SLI Thursday, April 05, 2012 4:22 AM (permalink)

I have just brought a 2nd GTX 570 HD SC to SLI with my other 1.

Is there anything special I need to do to install this card and get it working on SLI?

I have never setup sli before.

AMD Piledrive 8320 @4.0Ghz
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Re:Just bought 2nd GTX 570 HD SC for SLI Thursday, April 05, 2012 5:28 AM (permalink)

Hey Passey,

Welcome to the forums :)

Just put the card in, slap on the SLI bridge that should have came with your motherboard (there is a spot at the back end of the cards for the bridge, just in case you didn't know) then boot up. You will then have to go into the Nvidia Control Panel and click on Configure SLI, Physx and Surround. Once at that screen go to the SLI portion of the screen and click on the radio button for "Maximize Performance". Then go to the bottom of the control panel and click apply and your good to go :)

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Re:Just bought 2nd GTX 570 HD SC for SLI Thursday, April 05, 2012 6:28 AM (permalink)

Just remember to plug in the power for the 2nd card.

If your motherboard has an additional power plug near the pci-e slots this is the time to use it.

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Re:Just bought 2nd GTX 570 HD SC for SLI Thursday, April 05, 2012 7:51 AM (permalink)

What PSU are you using to power your 570's?

Intel i7 3770K@ 4.8GHz
Corsair H70 Core Hydro
ASUS Maximus V Formula
16GB G.Skill RipjawsX@ 2133MHz, 9-11-11-31
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passey Total Posts : 21 Joined: 10/13/2011 Status: offline	Re:Just bought 2nd GTX 570 HD SC for SLI Thursday, April 05, 2012 8:28 AM (permalink) 750W psu <message edited by passey on Thursday, April 05, 2012 8:31 AM> AMD Piledrive 8320 @4.0Ghz ASRocks 990FX Extreme 3 MOBO 2 * 4GB Skills 1600Mhz RAM Crucial M4 128GB X2 RAID 0 Seagate 1TB HDD EVGA GTX 670 FTW Custom Water Loop LG Blu-ray Writer OCZ 750W PSU
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Re:Just bought 2nd GTX 570 HD SC for SLI Thursday, April 05, 2012 9:01 AM (permalink)

passey

750W psu

Make & model?

passey Total Posts : 21 Joined: 10/13/2011 Status: offline	Re:Just bought 2nd GTX 570 HD SC for SLI Thursday, April 05, 2012 1:26 PM (permalink) OCZ not sure on the model AMD Piledrive 8320 @4.0Ghz ASRocks 990FX Extreme 3 MOBO 2 * 4GB Skills 1600Mhz RAM Crucial M4 128GB X2 RAID 0 Seagate 1TB HDD EVGA GTX 670 FTW Custom Water Loop LG Blu-ray Writer OCZ 750W PSU
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Re:Just bought 2nd GTX 570 HD SC for SLI Thursday, April 05, 2012 1:29 PM (permalink)

Depending upon the model, your OCZ 750W may be borderline with twin 570's.

Please list your system components so we can gauge your power usage.

passey

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Re:Just bought 2nd GTX 570 HD SC for SLI Thursday, April 05, 2012 1:31 PM (permalink)

i put the components into the power usage earlier said about 690 i think.

AMD Phenom II 1075T
ASRocks 990 Extreme 3 Mobo
4 * 4GB Gskills 1600mhz ram
Crucial M4 64GB SSD
Seagate 1TB HDD
samsung DVD RW
LG Blu-ray writer

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ASRocks 990FX Extreme 3 MOBO
2 * 4GB Skills 1600Mhz RAM
Crucial M4 128GB X2 RAID 0
Seagate 1TB HDD
EVGA GTX 670 FTW
Custom Water Loop
LG Blu-ray Writer
OCZ 750W PSU

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Re:Just bought 2nd GTX 570 HD SC for SLI Thursday, April 05, 2012 3:04 PM (permalink)

You have to activate SLI in the nvidia control panal. Also make sure max performance is on and not adaptive. Everytime you install a new nvidia driver, the SLI will be turned off and you will have to turn it on again the the control panal along with prefer maximum performance.

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passey Total Posts : 21 Joined: 10/13/2011 Status: offline	Re:Just bought 2nd GTX 570 HD SC for SLI Thursday, April 05, 2012 10:56 PM (permalink) cool so its fairly simple then. Thanks for the help guys AMD Piledrive 8320 @4.0Ghz ASRocks 990FX Extreme 3 MOBO 2 * 4GB Skills 1600Mhz RAM Crucial M4 128GB X2 RAID 0 Seagate 1TB HDD EVGA GTX 670 FTW Custom Water Loop LG Blu-ray Writer OCZ 750W PSU
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peeler05 Total Posts : 890 Joined: 6/14/2011 Status: offline Ribbons: 2 Folding: 4,428,581	Re:Just bought 2nd GTX 570 HD SC for SLI Thursday, April 05, 2012 11:51 PM (permalink) sli bridge is magical EVGA Z68 SLI MOTHERBOARD 2 X EVGA GTX 580 SUPERCLOCKED IN SLI INTEL CORE I7-2600k SANDY BRIDGE OC'd 4.5GHz @ 1310 VOLTAGE COOLER MASTER HYPER 212 EVO COOLER MASTER SILENT PRO 1000W 8GB 1333 RAM SENNHEISER HD650 HEADPHONES
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Re:Just bought 2nd GTX 570 HD SC for SLI Monday, September 03, 2012 5:10 PM (permalink)

Hi, found this thread and was wondering if with my setup below adding a 2nd GTX570HD SC would be okay with my corsair 750tx power supply?? thx

e6750 @ 3.00 GHz Zalman 9700 Cooler
EVGA 680i A1 MB FSB 1500MHz
(2 x 2gb) OCZ Reaper memory 5-5-5-15 2T @ 1000MHz
Corsair Tx750 Power Supply
2 x 320GB Seagate HD Raid 0, 1 x 1TB WD Caviar Black
eVGA GTX 570SC HD
eVGA 8800GTS 320MB(Physx)
SoundBlaster X-FI XtremeGamer Soundcard
VisionTek 650 pci-e tv tuner
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Re:Just bought 2nd GTX 570 HD SC for SLI Monday, September 03, 2012 7:43 PM (permalink)

I would recommend getting a more capable power supply for several reasons. The AMD Phenom II quad-core and hex-core CPU's suck a lot of juice especially when you overclock them which you will definitely want to do with running SLI to give your cards the best performance boost. Secondly, if you overclock the cards they can pull quite a draw too.

I ran my setup (i5-2500k @ 4.2Ghz) with SLI cards at stock clocks (732Mhz core) and it was pushing my Corsair TX750 very hard to the point where I was concerned about its longevity. I upgraded to a Corsair AX850 and it gives me extra headroom to overclock everything without my 12v rail dropping under load. I'm simply saying that I wouldnt try to overclock everything until you get a better power supply, the 750W you have now is enough to run everything at stock.