NVIDIA GTX 970 SLI possible problem

[BiggieShady]

The x4 AA is the standard for the Valley Benchmark thread.

Sorry man, I thought this was about Heaven

 

[rtwjunkie]

Sorry man, I thought this was about Heaven

No big deal! We all see miss things in threads sometimes.

 

[pia]

Ok, so the problem is the second card is running in PCI-E x1 mode instead of PCI-E x8 like it should be. It actually looks to me like you have the second card in the wrong slot. The slot that ruff0r circled is actually incorrect as well. If you were running a 40-Lane CPU, ruff0r would be correct. However, because your 5820K is a 28-Lane CPU, you actually want to use PCI-E x16_1 and PCI-E x16_4. This is the chart to figure that out from ASUS:

These are the slots you want to use:

Sorry for the double post, but I wanted to bump the thread so the OP saw there was a new reply.

Finally SLI works!!!!
newtekie1 were right, the cards should go on PCIEX16_1 and PCIEX16_4
Test again with Unigine Valley with this settings
Preset: Custom
API: DX11
Quality: Ultra
Stereo 3d: Disabled
Monitors: Single
Anti Aliazing: x4
Full screen: yes
Resolution: 1920x1080

and got4153

on NVIDIA panel appears SLI and it's enabled, also on GPU-Z appears SLI enabled

Thank you all you guys to help me resolve this!!!!

 

[rtwjunkie]

Now that is a much better and appropriate score.