ottoyu34 wrote:
Which slots on the R3E are you using?
Have you tried manually setting the fan speed to see if they can idle at the same temps?
with their stock VGA bios according, can you vertify using GPU-Z that reason why Asus card is idling hotter than the other? rpm speed, 2d clock speeds?
Again, sorry, losing my patience here, as I already stated, THEY ARE AT THE SAME CLOCKS!!!
The Asus BIOS causes the Asus card to run 15c hotter than by itself or SLI'd with another Asus GTX480 whenever it is SLI'd with a GTX480 that is a NON-ASUS GTX480...
The fans run the same, the temps are perfect when running the same BIOS on both cards.
The commentary here was NOT for further troubleshooting as I gurantee it is done. It was posted to get an answer from someone at Asus, NOT ANYONE ELSE.
Sorry, I guess everyone assumes everyone else is a noob but without getting into a ton of detail of my life or career, lets just say I am the guy everyone consults to get answers and fixes for everything they cannot figure out.
Rest assured that it is an Asus BIOS problem. It can be replicated by flashing a non-Asus card with the Asus BIOS and that card will exhibit the same 15c increase in temps.
I just want someone at Asus to fess up to why it is doing it, or fix it because it is a PITA if you try to SLI an Asus card with a non Asus card. That is all.