This is a word of warning to you guys out there using this motherboard and more than one GTX 480. I've used two different PSU's, a tagan 800W unit and 1200W Silverstone unit. Both PSU's 24pin connector had two pins melt into the socket of the mobo.
This is ostensibly due to the MoBo simply trying to pull too much current through a single pin (one pin was the + and the other was the ground) and overheating it to the point of melting it. There is no short in this system. It only happens when under 3d mode and when running in SLI. When only one GPU is pulling power, this does not occur.
I personally find this to be a HUGE engineering failure on both nVidia's and eVGA's behalf. nVidia has made a card that pulls too much power through the motherboard, and eVGA has failed to design a $400+ motherboard capable of handling a mere two of the most elite of GPUs. I also ran a tri-fire 5970+5870 set up on this very board and it did NOT do this.
The guy's over at XS have seen this happen to this board in 4 x 4890 configurations as well. They have a mod to fix it that involves soldering another 12v lead and ground to the back of the 24-pin soldering points
You've been warned.
Silverstone
Tagan
Edited by Ihatethedukes - 7/6/10 at 9:21pm
This is ostensibly due to the MoBo simply trying to pull too much current through a single pin (one pin was the + and the other was the ground) and overheating it to the point of melting it. There is no short in this system. It only happens when under 3d mode and when running in SLI. When only one GPU is pulling power, this does not occur.
I personally find this to be a HUGE engineering failure on both nVidia's and eVGA's behalf. nVidia has made a card that pulls too much power through the motherboard, and eVGA has failed to design a $400+ motherboard capable of handling a mere two of the most elite of GPUs. I also ran a tri-fire 5970+5870 set up on this very board and it did NOT do this.
The guy's over at XS have seen this happen to this board in 4 x 4890 configurations as well. They have a mod to fix it that involves soldering another 12v lead and ground to the back of the 24-pin soldering points
You've been warned.
Silverstone
Tagan
Edited by Ihatethedukes - 7/6/10 at 9:21pm
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