Ratdude's Main Rig V6

[diif]

Originally Posted by ratdude747

I did read of people BIOS modding the liscenses in... but that screams trouble. I've already fought the BIOS gods and lost on this board, and I don't quite have the cojones to go there, especially since it's not a well documented mod and I'm not an x86 assembly expert.

If it ain't fucked, don't fix it and post #15 suggests ; the unlucky fairies come to play quite often/the devil makes work for idle hands.

I've only known one person with an SLI installation. I don't remember the cards but there was lots of faff getting it set right and the gains weren't great.

[RJARRRPCGP]

Originally Posted by Topcat

I wouldn't say that....more along the lines of what diif said... They aren't targeting the gamer crowd, and hence, not a lot of demand for SLI support amongst their target audience. I was only doing it to tinker around....I had no intention of actually using that system for anything gaming and/or productive.

It was the directory the X58 drivers are in on their web site, LOL

[ratdude747]

For a variety of reasons, I moved this system to windows 10 tonight.

Good news:

-Activation worked out.
-Most things work out of the box.
-Once I installed classic shell and reconfigured some things, it seems to be OK to use.

Bad news:

-Intel network teaming is not supported. Not that I was really gaining anything from using such. Bummer though.

If this works I may do the same with my other systems new enough to be compatible... I remembered what happened when XP lost support... at least for me stuff seemed to get infected a bunch all of the sudden (don't know why, I don't go to BS sites or the like). Hence why I migrated to W7 at that point.

[ratdude747]

While working on another build, I've discovered an issue:

https://www.badcaps.net/forum/showthread.php?p=955091

The issue is my GPU is lagging/bottlnecking like a SOB. I've played musical GPUs, and the issue is the system, not the GPUs.

In novabench, I should be getting around 60FPS... I'm getting around 13-15. consistently.

Also, I'm having intermittent keyboard lag, but I suspect that might be a logitech unifying issue. I might swap the keyboard and mouse for wired units as a test to see if anything changes.

[diif]

Possibly a chipset driver issue.

[ratdude747]

Originally Posted by diif

Possibly a chipset driver issue.

...and Intel has none listed for windows 10, nor does SM. It uses dual Intel 5520 chipsets. Windows is using default drivers dated to 2006.

However, I did some digging and apparently the windows 7 drivers are also marked for windows 8 and 8.1... and successfully installed.

Rebooting, will try again.

[ratdude747]

Originally Posted by ratdude747

...and Intel has none listed for windows 10, nor does SM. It uses dual Intel 5520 chipsets. Windows is using default drivers dated to 2006.

However, I did some digging and apparently the windows 7 drivers are also marked for windows 8 and 8.1... and successfully installed.

Rebooting, will try again.

Nope, no change in FPS.

Might need to scour the BIOS settings... this is lame.

[RJARRRPCGP]

Originally Posted by ratdude747

Windows is using default drivers dated to 2006.

Windows, since Vista, usually shows 2006, even Windows 10, for Vista's sake! LOL!

[Per Hansson]

No, it is not for Vistas sake: it is so that if you have a third party driver it will be newer than the Windows in-box driver.
And so Windows should not try to overwrite it with the in-box driver.
P.S: This worked fine up until the train-wreck known as Windows 10.

[ratdude747]

I think the issue is Novabench, not the system.

Ran catzilla, and got a very good score:



I've been getting scores in the 11000-13000 range on my other GTX970 based systems... this one is the fastest, and the benchmark shows it.

Go figure.