Two Gainward 6800 Ultras in SLi mode - PCIe VGA Link Width: 8x

I have a K8N Diamond SLi board with two Gainward 6800 Ultras. When I have just one card inserted I get "PCIe VGA Link Width: 16x" in the BIOS, but when I have both cards in I get only "PCIe VGA Link Width: 8x", is this correct?
I also get a shaky/trembling display in everything direct3d when I'm in SLi mode, as soon as I turn it off the image is rock solid. It's like the complete image on screen shifts one vertical pixel line up and then back to normal again.. this happens at regular intervals while playing games and it's very annoying :\ Any ideas?

Check your BIOS configurations concerning SLI settings, PCI-E settings and so forth. Have you run any benchmarks with the SLI and Balance Bar modes enabled? You will find both in nVidia Settings! That should tell you if any one card is not pushing it's load!

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processor: AMD Athlon64 3200+
ram: 2 x 1GB
power supply: Antec True Power Quattro 850
vga: Sapphire HD2600 XT 256MB PCI-e
sound: Creative Audigy 2 Platinum
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fans: 2 x 12cm, 5 x 8cm
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Here is my problem. I had Vga Sapphire x1300. Link width was x16 and everything worked fine. Now I have bought new vga card Sapphire HD2600 XT 256MB and now the PCI-e vga link width is x8. The motherboard is not SLI and there is only one PCI-e x16 slot. The graphic card works and the card itself is x16. PCI-e is x16. So PCI-e vga link width should say x16 as it has with my old card, but it says x8. I have updated BIOS to the latest version. I have searched the manual but I didn't find anything about setting up the graphic card bus. BIOS has setting for PCIE Spread Spectrum which can be set to "Down Spread" or "Disabled". The second setting for PCIE is PCIE Clock which can be in range from 100-145MHz. I didn't changed these settings because with an old card everything worked fine, and I don't know what these settings mean. Are one of this two settings related to my problem? I haven't overclock any of my components.
Can someone please help me or suggest what to do?
Thanks in advance!
Daniel

Quote from: daniel66 on 19-March-08, 03:05:03
I did what you said and it worked. I pulled the card out and inserted it again. Pushed it a little bit harder in the slot and now it says x16 like it use to.
Thanks again!
Daniel
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Problem of PCI express link width and speed

hello,
I instantiate the pci express core v1.7 into a pci express endpoint and the core was configured as GEN I x8 or GEN II x4. By using the example design Xilinx offered in the ipcore dir, I could read and write device by PIO mode.
However, when I check the device’s link width and speed by using lspci –vvvv in Linux, I found that no matter what configurations I set, the device link is always trained as GEN I x1, which means the throughput of device, reduce 8 times. May the most important problem is that all logic in the user layer upon transaction layer are written at 250MHz, and if link width and speed are limited 2.5G/T and x1, I need to change user logic circuit which is a huge work.
So my question is how to change the PCI express link width and speed in OS side, or I need to change a new motherboard?
(I guess it related with motherboard, and I check that the PCI express slot in motherboard support GEN II X16. Another issue, when I insert a PCI express GEN II x8 device, the device is also trained as GEN I x1).
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01:00.0 RAM memory: Xilinx Corporation Device 6018
Subsystem: Xilinx Corporation Device 0007
Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx-
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Latency: 0, Cache Line Size: 64 bytes
Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 16
Region 0: Memory at dfcff800 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=2K]
Region 1: Memory at de000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M]
Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 3
Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1- D2- AuxCurrent=0mA PME(D0+,D1+,D2+,D3hot+,D3cold-)
Status: D0 NoSoftRst+ PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME-
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Address: 0000000000000000 Data: 0000
Capabilities: [60] Express (v2) Endpoint, MSI 01
DevCap: MaxPayload 512 bytes, PhantFunc 0, Latency L0s unlimited, L1 unlimited
ExtTag- AttnBtn- AttnInd- PwrInd- RBE+ FLReset-
DevCtl: Report errors: Correctable- Non-Fatal+ Fatal+ Unsupported-
RlxdOrd+ ExtTag- PhantFunc- AuxPwr- NoSnoop+
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Transmit Margin: Normal Operating Range, EnterModifiedCompliance- ComplianceSOS-
Compliance De-emphasis: -6dB
LnkSta2: Current De-emphasis Level: -3.5dB, EqualizationComplete-, EqualizationPhase1-
EqualizationPhase2-, EqualizationPhase3-, LinkEqualizationRequest-
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Twin 6800 GTs in SLi

Hi folks,
I've got myself the ASUS K8N-SLi Deluxe board and have popped two of these in it:
http://www.scan.co.uk/Products/ProductInfo.asp?WebProductID=154668
(MSI 6800 GTs)
after *alot* of testing & playing and mucking about I still cannot get them to work satisfactorily in SLi mode.
Picture Shows it best (Far Cry)
Link
There is distortion of one half of the screen (Show GPU balancing is enabled to show that it is the output of one card).
This distortion is not seen when captured direct from DirectX (Fraps)
Link (Warning: large Files, sorry)
Board is the A8N-SLi Deluxe (BIOS REV 1002), Athlon Fx55, MSI Gf6800GT x 2, 550W PSU
tried:
swapping cards round,
cards individually (fine)
dicking around with memory (dual channel on and off etc)
unplugging all optical drives / fans to free up power
nvidia drivers 69 - 71.20 (no change)
E-Z Plug is in place, E-Z Selector configured for dual cards, SLi connector in both orientations
other apps (HL2) show similar, although seem to implement SLi in another way, as the interferance appears in a different fashion on the screen (flickering on and off, scrolling up / down the screen)
at lower resolutions, the effect is not quite so bad and appears as simply a distortion on the lower half of the screen when the cursor is moved over / there is movement on screen.
In Single card mode everything is fine also
If you run a game in SLi mode, BUT windowed, there is also no distortion effect.
Some other people are having this problem:
Anantech Forums
(Last Starfighter is me
and
Link
but Asus insist that the fault lies with the MSI cards:
Quote
Dear Alex,
This is more likely to be related to the graphics cards themselves. Try the latest Nvidia drivers or check with MSI.
UK Technical Support
PLEASE DO NOT REMOVE PREVIOUS MAILS
WHEN REPLYING AS WE CANNOT GUARANTEE YOU
WILL ALWAYS GET THE SAME PERSON RESPONDING
Any ideas chaps?

[Whoops - lagging a bit. This is for the pre-PSU posts.]
Alex - *Weird*. Looks like the final presentation blit is sorting everything out. I'm hazy on how some of SLi works with this kind of thing. It's also possible that in full screen mode the app is trying to do something which the driver can't handle in SLi - overlays or some kind of palette fiddling, maybe? Just a thought. I don't know if there's a way to fiddle the driver settings to disable the caps for something like that, which might help. (I'm guessing, I don't know my way around nVidia drivers.)
Zoomee - well, it's probably not cut down, for a GTo card. I suspect they just didn't know. Given the trouble I've had getting anything out of MSI UK (who *also* don't seem to know anything, I don't think that they're being deliberately unhelpful) I believe Scan's technical support when they say they're also unable to find anything out. I've not seen the GTo card specs anywhere on MSI's global site either, and I did try to look before buying it - MSI UK probably should have told me (while I was getting them to find out about the dual link issue) if they'd known.
It sounds like MSI could do with publishing some more information on the things they're shipping, but at the moment I'm too well-disposed to them for actually producing a dual link card (unlike, e.g., Innovision, who *still* say their card is dual link in spite of my contacting them twice, over several months, and finding out that it's not; for some reason their Ultra seems to have lost some pipes, too) to complain.
It would help if nVidia would actually mention any details about the 6800 variants on their web site, of course. There's nothing at all I've found about GTo or LE cards, and very little to distinguish the others.
I thought Scan's site still says 16 pipes (they just quote the 6800GT specs); someone was kind enough to mention that it's 12. I actually posted a query on that before finding out (still being processed, along with the following one saying "ignore me, and you'll be getting your cards back"). Generally, I find Scan to be very good until something goes wrong, at which point they get very confused. It's a gamble. I suspect someone who knows what they're doing is in the background at Scan, but everyone else is running by puppetry, and occasionally the strings get tangled.
At least I now know why 3DMark05 wasn't smooth the whole way through...
I'm keeping my fingers crossed for Overclockers. To be fair, it's not January yet (and my PCI-E motherboard won't turn up until then anyway). Again, it's unlikely to be their fault if things run late. The only reason I'm looking at GTs is that I've given up on Ultras appearing any time soon - but I need a dual link connector (which means the MSI GT/GTo or I'm into Quadro territory), and I could really do with both SLi and decent generic shading rate. Under Linux, with no SLi (I presume?) for now, it's even more important that the basic card is fast.
At least I've not pulled my current Opteron apart yet; it's only my desk that's a rat's nest of cabling.
I guess we should have realized that 6800 availability was going to be a problem when the die size was first announced. I was kind of hoping they'd have given it a die shrink by now, though (I was expecting the Quadro 4400 to be on a smaller process, but then I was expecting it to be released before now...) and fixed up things like the video decode. The problem with the flagship silicon is that, for marketing, it's wonderful to produce a small number of them and then completely ignore them while 6600GTs get shipped to the masses. Sigh.
I've heard good benchmarks for the Radeons, but I really want PS3.0 and dual link (and SLi helps) so I've ignored them. Good luck if you go that route - you'll never reach SLi speed that way, though. Gigabyte's card with two 6600GTs in one slot
might be worth a look, if it's available yet (you can't SLi it, though).
Thanks for all the information, guys - I'd have had a rude shock some weeks too late if I'd not lurked here...
Er. Alex, I really *hope* that PSU copes. I've only just upgraded to a 480W
Tagan (although it's under-specced), and I'm expecting that to handle it.
Andrew

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I have an XFX6800 Ultra in my K8N Neo2 Plat and it works superbly so fingers crossed doing the above will sort it as they are the main probs with the 6800Ultra cards.

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K8N+SLI Mode - Need help

Hello,
I was going to buy the second graphic card for my computer to work in SLI Mode. Nowadays I am using:
MSI GeForce 6600 128MB DDR3/128 bit TV/DVI/VIVO PCI-Express (8979-06S)(NX6600-VTD128E Diamond)
so I went to the shop, in which I always buy computer parts and got there an information that this card is no more available
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MSI GeForce 6600GT 128MB DDR3/128bit TV/DVI PCI-Express (8983-010) (NX6600GT-TD128E)
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Please HELP ME!
Greetings

try to boot with 2 memory sticks only, when using 4 sticks setup memory index to 333. (Winchester core had bad mem. controller on it aswell, it may not handle 4 sticks property)
Clear CMOS Guide
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your PSU got +12V1 17A, +12V2 17A
good PSU recommendation:
https://forum-en.msi.com/index.php?topic=103299.msg757739#msg757739
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Quote from: Svet on 12-August-09, 20:23:52
which one? http://eu.msi.com/index.php?func=searchresult&keywords=NX7950GT
Min seems to be the "MSI NX7950GT - VT2D512EZ - HD", latter one with VIVO support. It does have passive cooling using heatpipes, and a sticker on it says what I put in double quotes above. That would be this card:
http://eu.msi.com/index.php?func=proddesc&maincat_no=130&prod_no=1045
The sticker/model name for the ASUS card says:
ASUS P455 REV: 1.00
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I suppose it ought to be this card? http://www.asus.com/product.aspx?P_ID=5XmjRmrwz3r9rWuv
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GPU-Z: MSI BX7950GT-VT2D512EZ-HD:
GPU: G71 Revision: A2
Device ID: 10DE-0295
BIOS Version: 5.71.22.42.06
Subvendor: MSI (1462)
ROPs: 16
Bus interface: PCI-E x16 @ x16
Shaders: 24 Pixel / 8 vertex
DirectX support: 9.0c / SM3.0
Pixel fillrate: 8.8 GPixel/s
Texture fillrate: 13.2 GTexel/s
Memory type: GDDR3
Bus width: 256 Bit
Bandwidth: 44.8 GB/s
Memory size: 512 Mb
GPU Clock: 550 MHz
Memory: 700 MHz
GPU-Z: For ASUS P445
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Shaders: 24 Pixel / 8 vertex
DirectX support: 9.0c / SM3.0
Pixel fillrate: 8.8 GPixel/s
Texture fillrate: 13.2 GTexel/s
Memory type: GDDR3
Bus width: 256 Bit
Bandwidth: 44.8 GB/s
Memory size: 512 Mb
GPU Clock: 550 MHz
Memory: 700 MHz
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The Apple OEM versions are GDDR3 memory for the GT DDL and the Ultra DDL.
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Total bandwidth runs in the favor of the Ultra DDL:
Geforce 6800 GT 32GB/s
Geforce 6800 Ultra DDL 35.2GB/s
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http://www.barefeats.com/radx800.html
The PC versions of the GT and Ultra use the same GPU, GDDR3 memory and same clock speeds, except in the case of OC variants.
The Memory clocks of the GT and Ultras (OEM or PC) are 500 MHz (1000 MHz) and 550 MHz (1100 MHz).
Performance of the PC version is the same as the OEM equivalent, only port configuration and card width being major differences (PC cards are typically single slot, while OEM are dual slot. This is a negative if one has many PCI/PCI-X cards).
Of course there are cooler variations, but all use either a single or a dual slot Cooler Master cooler.
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I'm asking this because I used to have Matrox Parhelia 128 which had this function and I liked to watch all the DVD's and other video from my tv.
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I'm still confused about the TV-problem.
When I switch to TV mode I can watch videos from TV but when I return I have to put all the resolutions and screen adjustments back in the settings. It's really frustrating to do it every time.
Does anyone know a workaround for this?

I have a 6800 ultra in my powermac, what temp should it be?

I have a 6800 ultra in my powermac 2.7, what temp should it be? right now the case is between 111-120 F and the chip is between 150-160F.... is this the temperature that it should be running in? also, is the only difference between the ultra and the GT the 50mhz core clock and the 100mhz memory clock? thanks for the help

Dear The Geek,
I have the Dual 2.5 G5 with very similar cooling system, etc. I just recently installed a 6800 GT card new from Ebay and it has been running about 111ºF on the Graphics processor case and 144ºF on the Graphics processor chip at idle. As far as I know the difference in clock and memory speed are the only differences between the 6800 GT and Ultra. That said, the difference in processor operating temp could be due to the slightly higher clock speed, I suppose. Running Cinebench I did get the processor temp up to about 147ºF. I don't think the extra 10ºF should be a critical difference. I wonder how your fan speeds compare. For instance, my Graphics processor fan runs static at 32% and the PCI Slot Fan runs static at 49%. How does your PCI fan compare?...I notices mine runs considerable faster with the added current used by the 6800 compared to the original 9600xt.
Chad
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I run Dual head (twin LCDs 1280x1024) on my Dual 2.5GHz G5 with 6800 Ultra
I just upgraded to 10.5.5 and I lost my primary display, it's not kicking out any signal that my screen can work with. The secondary screen is fine.
I went to display settings and changed the primary screen to loads of valid settings and nothing works.
Reset PRAM, still nothing.
I suspect from reading other posts that 10.5.5 is bollocked on G5s somehow.
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I'm not overly happy about trying to drop back to 10.5.4 as I just lost one of my drives and I'm actually trying to restore that at the moment so the prospect of finding a spare 500G drive to clone onto is a bit scary etc.
Anyway, let me have the suggestions

Hi Mordatdansant,
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I want to say make a bootable clone first and use Archive and Install as the option on the OS Disk to get back to an earlier OS, but you don't seem very up for that.
There's another thing you could try to fix your issues but only if you're willing to take an element of risk. I've done this two times to clean up weird problems on my mac but I had backups galore and could take the risk (I'm reckless as heck too). Exactly what problems trying this fix could cause, I don't know. Essentially I would think it was copying over files to replace identical ones. It's I just don't see this posted too often.
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If so, download the Mac OS X 10.5.5 Combo Update, yeah, the gigantic one, here:
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Can My 6800 Ultra Push Video To My Trusty Dusty Samsung HDTV

Hello
I have a DP 1.8 with a 6800 Ultra card. I have an older Samsung HDTV that has a DVI connector. The Samsung website tells me that it is a DVI-D Single Link input. Can I run a standard DVI-D cable from my card to my TV?
I am hoping to use this older Samsung of mine as a display to test my video edits on before exporting and what not.
Anyone have any luck?
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If anyone finds this whose curious--I have two 1.5TB Seagate HD's in my G5 and it runs like a champ.

If one or both connections are DVI-D, you need a DVI-D cable.
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GeForce 6600 & 6800 Ultra or 7800GT in G5 QUAD???

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What better for upgrade?
I check tests-and see that 6600 better than Ultra...
So... what card I need if I want change my 6600.
Any ideas?
Thanks for help...

Hi Lexas;
I currently have the Quad with the 7800 GT in it. It is great.
In the title you sound like you might be thinking of putting a 6800 Ultra in the Quad. I don't think it will work. The 6800 Ultra is AGP and the Quad uses PCI Express cards. So I don't think it will fit into the Quad.
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