Random BSOD. Grahpics driver?

essenbe said:

Everything sounds normal except the SLI Bridge. Do you think your Bridge could be bad?

I got the bridge working. I remembered that if I pushed the bridge completely all the way in on each card it would not work. I ran furmark on both cards at 720mhz and they were stable. Just tried it at 810 and I got a bsod. I think the top card went over 100c. The bottom card was around 80c. I'm going to try furmark again and watch it closely.

EDIT: I also am not noticing an fps increase on furmark with sli. Is this normal

EDIT 2: just crashed again. Was at 99C. Even at 720mhz it gets to this temp. Should I remove the plastic shroud?

essenbe said:

Doesn't the plastic shroud hold the fans on? What you need would be something like Nvidia Precision X or MSI Afterburner and set a custom fan profile and add some more fans blowing on the Graphic cards. Try taking the side off the case and blowing a house fan directly into the case on the cards and see if that helps. Those cards don't need to be anywhere close to 100C.

Well I use Asus GPU tweak and set both fans to clock at 100% @>90C

Anywho I decided to modify the exhaust port on the evga card. I got rid of all the slots so there would be more airflow. In the process I decided to re-apply thermal paste. When I took the cooler off and looked at the die I couldn't believe what I saw. There was solder on the die, and flux all around the edges. I figured "Oh well, shit happens" So I took and applied a very generous glob of arctic silver and went to put the cooler back on. WELL when i put it back on and I looked at it through the side of the card I could see light between the cooler and the die, and I put enough thermal paste on to at least cover 2 cpu dies. I could literally fit 4 index cards between the cooler and the die. So I modified the studs on the cooler so it would actually touch the die. Now I'm running furmark again and I'm seeing slightly better temps. 95C on stock vs 98C, but it's still quite warm. I will put my side panel on with the fan and see if that helps.

I'll also post some pics in a minute.

Here's the link to the pictures. They're too big to upload directly.


https://www.dropbox.com/sh/uxkurclz7...czvYAgw5a?dl=0

essenbe said:

I see, but I think I would still leave the shroud on.

The shroud is on. I think I'm not getting enough airflow through the card because it is in SLI. Do you have any recommendations for lowering temps?