[marcam923]

Originally Posted by Kal-EL

In all my wonderous wisdom and expertise that I lack which make me a Noob4Life, I would have to say that Corsair HX1000 should get a round of applause for not straight kicking the bucket while trying to operate without a proper umbilical cord and nutrients.

Haha, yep after a trip to the local Tigerdirect I got the proper power cable after a hook up from my new tech buddy Carl! Once I get home and plug her in I will post back, hopefully from Krypto after a little 3d mark run!!

Ps for tech support call 1-800-411-punx :-)

[punx223]

Originally Posted by marcam923

Haha, yep after a trip to the local Tigerdirect I got the proper power cable after a hook up from my new tech buddy Carl! Once I get home and plug her in I will post back, hopefully from Krypto after a little 3d mark run!!

Ps for tech support call 1-800-411-punx :-)

fCorrection.... for instructions on how to void your warranty please call me

[marcam923]

Originally Posted by punx223

fCorrection.... for instructions on how to void your warranty please call me

EPIC FAIL!

SO I realized that I cannot utilize the bottom PCI-E slot with my case. The third slot on the x58 LE is x4

Plugged in the new power cord and everything seemed to be running great except my FPS were low, being the slots were reverting to x4

So I shut down, unplugged, moved the cards (now in the #1 & #2 slots)

Restarted, expected the drivers to pick them up, only one was moved, but NO!

Instead I get VGA mode, excessive lagging, turtle like movement in safe mode, and now that I think everything is back up the way it should be, everything shows up good in gpu-z, device manager, etc... no CPU/Ram OC. I start 3d 06 and get flashing pink colors, and extremely sub par performance.

How does all that happen when only switching slots on the GPU??

[Neuromancer]

Originally Posted by marcam923

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So I shut down, unplugged, moved the cards (now in the #1 & #2 slots)

Restarted, expected the drivers to pick them up, only one was moved, but NO!

Instead I get VGA mode, excessive lagging, turtle like movement in safe mode, and now that I think everything is back up the way it should be, everything shows up good in gpu-z, device manager, etc... no CPU/Ram OC. I start 3d 06 and get flashing pink colors, and extremely sub par performance.

How does all that happen when only switching slots on the GPU??

This is why I run ATI lol. (Not to sound like a fanboy or something, but this is exactly the kind of trouble I had running single cards with 8800 series).

Everyone loves nVidia driver's I had nothing but nightmares when I picked up a few 8800 cards a while back.

Run driver cleaner (sweeper on Vista or 7) and reinstall drivers.

[marcam923]

Are there jumpers on this board I am missing??

[Kal-EL]

Err I know reading the manual went out in the 80s but u might wanna check it out

[DrNip]

Come on... Looking for 30k!

[marcam923]

Originally Posted by DrNip

Come on... Looking for 30k!

Trust me I'll get it! It may require better ram for a 4.5+ run

[marcam923]

WOW looking at the hwbot, that score would get me the 19th top spot overall, and that was without really trying, and my crappy ram.

Hmmm now I have something to prove!