best overclocking tool for SLI cards

[manimal]

Just picked up another G92 GTS and installed it on my evga 680i board. Im gonna test SLI 9600gt's as well later in the weekend when the local BB gets more in stock as well. Normally rivatuner is what I use to overclock the cards but I remember reading somewhere a while back that it doesnt work very well with SLI.

I did some googleFU and didnt find a newish guide so I wanted to ask you folks what the best route would be. Would coolbits be any easier?


Thx in advance.

M

 

[imported_JohnJohn]

Hope you are in for a treat. 9600 gt sli is lovely

 

[manimal]

Figured it out using rivatuner. I believe if I set the first card to speeds I want the second defualts to that even thought he second card does not appear to be adjustable. Sadly once overclocked I didnt get that much of a speed bump in 3dmark6. I guess I am bottlenecked at 3.6 with this quad. Best score to date on 3dmark06 18900. ^^ I can boot into 3.73ish but its not prime stable so I see no point in benching at a speed I will have no real world use for. I never get suicide runs.....so silly..

 

[Tempered81]

@ manimal: are you testing sli 8800GTS 512's right now???? SWEET. try the 174.16whql drivers on them later and see if you get an hefty boost when using AA and AF.

I doubt you are bottlenecked by a 3600mhz GO q6600. your 3dmark06 score would be higher with that quad vs. a dual core penryn. yet the wolfdale would give you higher in-game FPS.

What do you have your cards clocked at, and what brand are they? Do you know if your 680i supports linkboost?

 

[manimal]

I think my evga board does support linkboost. I am gonna try the 174.16s later tonight or tomorow, my wife wants to spend some "quality time" tonight so my tinker time is limited.

I have a EVGA vanilla G92GTS and purchased one of those G92 BGF GTS's I listed in the hot deals section. I played around with SLI and used rivatuner to get to 775/1900/1050 on them, I need to do the fan speed profiles and hope setting them up on the first card carries over to the second one as well.
This setup consists of..
EVGA 680i A1
G0 Q6600 400fsb
4 gigs of OCZ rev 2 plats-moved from the rig in my sig
Thermaltake Armour Case
Corsair HX 620

I got 18400 on the first run and with the cards overclocked to what they are listed above I got only about 100 points more. I have to run this ram at 5-5-5-15 @2V even though they are rated at 4-4-4-14 @ 2.2. I cannot in good conscience run any ran at that voltage especially after hearing of all the problems people were having at 2.2+
Do you think that turning on linkboost in the bios would help? I have not toyed around with the different AFR profiles in game but I fired up crysis with the ultrahighconfig mod and was totally amazed at the performance increase. In CPU time demo at native on my 24 yeilded 20 fps average with some dips into the teens. The other timedemos were all at 30ish so I fired up the game and tested on some saves. WOW did it look great. Seldom did it dip into the the teens and was on average 30+ which on crysis isnt bad at all. I dropped down to play at 1680x1050 and it was as smooth as butter.

My 9600GT that I moved to my HTPC did something really weird tonight, I tried playing some MKV rips on my 52 Sharp and it artifacted like crazy at stock clocks. I immediately pulled it and put it on my bench machine and it was still artifacting.. soo weird. I didnt push it very hard and it never broke 70 at load. I did install it about 5 times on different machines to see how it ran.... gonna look at it with fresh eyes in the morning, worked for 12+hours today.