I just got 3dmark vantage, and when i view my results, it says im running windows vista. I also see that when i click on the system info option in the program. I am running Windows 7 Ultimate (64bit). Any idea why I keep showing as vista? I see on the site other scores displaying windows 7...
To get a valid score turn off physX. You can do it 2 ways, one is through nvidia's control panel and unchecking the physX box. Or do it in vantage before you test in options > disable PPU.
If that score is from 2 480's then there is something wrong, looks like one card isn't working. Perhaps a bad sli-cable? As 2 480's in sli should be close to the 45K barrier. {rough estimate}
You will also need to overclock that cpu to let both of those 480's in sli breathe. As two will need some cpu power to push them. Have fun and good luck.
the nvidia control panel detects it as SLI enabled, and device manager shows both the cards. is there any way to detect if SLI is truly working?
also, i turned off physx and my scores dropped all around. my CPU scores were cut in half when i turned it off, my graphics score lowered a bit as well. I turned it back on and it went back up... but my graphics score is still the same... cant get it up to the 45k area.
Also, i havent overclocked the CPU, or the GPUs yet. Would the stock speeds on the GPU really hold it back this much???
Last edited by dmccaulley; 05-08-2010 at 05:15 AM.
You can use this and it will give you the sli bar on the screen to show it is working 100%. You use to make it do it in nvidia control panel but i never had any luck doing it that way.