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Old April 1, 2010, 02:24 PM
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Seems my new GTX 295 wants to run in my new EVGA P55 SLI motherboard as pci E 1x... its in the proper 16x slot, performance while gaming mirrors that of a 9800GT.... not quite sure how to go about changing this :(
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Old April 1, 2010, 02:36 PM
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Seems my new GTX 295 wants to run in my new EVGA P55 SLI motherboard as pci E 1x... its in the proper 16x slot, performance while gaming mirrors that of a 9800GT.... not quite sure how to go about changing this :(
did you flash the latest bios on you're MB?
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Old April 1, 2010, 03:10 PM
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What does GPU-Z say? Are you just assuming it is PCI-E x1? Are you playing an SLI compatible game?
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Old April 1, 2010, 03:14 PM
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Do you have a sound card in one of the other PCI-E slots, by chance? My #1 slot downclocked to x8 in my classified when I had my Xonar in the wrong slot.
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No PCI-E installed just a PCI sound card, GPUz and CPUz both say the PCI-E lane is running at full 16x but the performance sure isnt saying so... Playing DA:O with maxed graphics didnt even sweat my 4870x2 but now I get slightly chopped frames and the sound is distorted, crysis warhead is unplayable, borederlands is pretty choppy as well. I think im going to do a fresh windows install, update the bios on the motherboard and see if that fixes it.
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Maybe you should try a fresh driver install first?
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I've never had a 295, do you have to enable SLI in the driver?
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Yeah that is what I would think to do. Make sure nVidia Control Panel is enabled for Multi GPU mode. Test the Card in a different PCI-e Slot.

You have enough power for it right?

And then wipe the drivers and Redo with the latest.

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News bios + reformat seems to have fixed the missread of x1 vs 16x, havent had a chance to test via gaming but the bios also let me take my i3 530 from 3.5ghz max to 4ghz =D
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