Hey everyone, I am in need of your technical expertise!
I recently purchased a computer, I even took suggestions from some of you good people here in this forum, and I made a PC with the following components:
1 X CORSAIR TX-850M MODULAR
1 X WESTERN DIGITAL BLUE 1TB SATA III (WD10EALX)
1 X SAMSUNG 830 256GB SATA 3 2.5 SSD
2 X 8GB GSKILL ARES DDR3 1600MHZ (9-9-9) (2x4GB)
1 X ASUS SABERTOOTH Z77 SOCKET 1155
1 X ARCTIC COOLING FREEZER I30
1 X CORE I5 3570K 3.4GHZ 6MB CACHE 1155
2 X EVGA GTX670 SC 2GB GDDR5 (2672)
now I probably mentioned more of my system than I needed, because the problem lies specifically with the usage of SLI. What happens is, I have SLI enabled on Nvidia control panel, however when running games using SLI, it tends to crash at certain times. For example, in BF3 it will ALWAYS crash when changing map, for Max payne it would crash when also changing map, or at random times during cutscenes, for Civ V it crashes at any time, on diablo 3 it can crash at any time as well, etc.
Some of the times, the system manages to recover, and the message "Nvidia display drivers stopped responding and has recovered sucessfully" or something like this, but most of the times the PC just locks up with whatever sound was going on, repeating constantly until I press the reset button. Now the way I have fixed this so far is to set each game individually to only run with one GPU, and this seems to work fine, but I would like to do more tests to see if it's related to SLI, or exactly what is crashing my games!
I'd like to ask, if possible, if there is any event logger or something that will detail the reason of the crash and etc, or if anyone knows a fix for this issue? It's kind of distressful having so much more FPS power and not beeing able to use it...
Please help! And thanks in advance!