2014/05/12 14:24:20
Minacious
noto_vfx
damn so much for the "auto-notify" --  Didn't get a peep from EVGA and it is now sold out on newEgg. 



 
The auto-notify here will only inform you when they are available from the EVGA store.
2014/05/12 18:20:03
noto_vfx
Minacious
noto_vfx
damn so much for the "auto-notify" --  Didn't get a peep from EVGA and it is now sold out on newEgg. 



 
The auto-notify here will only inform you when they are available from the EVGA store.




 
thanks for the info.  Anyway to know what other retailers they were distributed to?  Doesn't appear to be available on TigerDirect.
2014/05/12 18:57:17
Minacious
noto_vfx
thanks for the info.  Anyway to know what other retailers they were distributed to?  Doesn't appear to be available on TigerDirect.



Newegg and Amazon are all I see at the moment.
2014/05/14 10:55:51
druuzil
Has anyone else here tried these 6GB cards in SLI?  I am having nothing but problems.
Of the first 2 cards I received, 1 was bad out of the box.  When SLI was enabled, any game that I would run above fairly low resolutions would cause my PC to hard shutdown/reboot itself.  Trying each card individually revealed that the 2nd card was in fact bad, and so I returned it via RMA for a replacement.  Fast forward to yesterday (5/13/2014) and I got my new card in the mail.  Low and behold, it does the same thing in SLI.  The caveat this time is that both cards work fine individually.  If I have them both in the system, and I disable SLI, the system works fine also.  Only when SLI is enabled, and I try running a game (Metro Last Light is a good example), the game will load fine, and start up, but once you get past the opening CGI and the game actually has to render something, the machine hard reboots itself.  This is 100% repeatable. 
 
Troublelshooting attempted:  2 different SLI bridges, 3 different power supplies (also tried daisy chaining various combinations using an Add2PSU adapater, no joy), running each card individually, running each card in various slots on my motherboard (Gigabyte GA-X79-UP4 Socket 2011, supports 4 different PCI Express slots).  I have the latest motherboard chipset drivers installed, and updated to the latest BIOS which is only 2 months old from Gigabyte (released 4/30 I think, revision F7).  The issue is not heat.  My cards aren't even running long enough to get hot.  They're running idle around 38 degrees.  My CPU is not overheating either.  Some other info that I think is relevant is that I have used several dual-gpu configurations in this machine in the past with no issues.
Setups in the past:
2x AMD HD7970 3GB (reference)
2x AMD HD7970 Sapphire 6GB cards (use more power than these 780's do)
2x AMD R9 290x Sapphire 4GB cards
2x GTX780 EVGA 3GB Reference cards (use the same exact power requirements as the new 6GB ACX cards)
 
All of the above setups worked fine.  I believe the issue at this point is drivers.  The latest full release driver from Nvidia doesn't even work with these cards.  It will tell you you don't have any Nvidia hardware in your machine.  The only driver that will even install is the latest Beta driver (337.50 I think is the version).  With that installed, I can game on either card individually up to 4k resolution just fine (obviously we get some slow down at 4k, but thats expected), but as soon as SLI is enabled, and a game starts to render, viola, the machine hard resets itself. 
My system:
i7 3930k w/Corsair H100i cooler
2x 120GB Kingston SSDNow! SATA III SSD's in RAID 0
2TB Western Digital Caviar HDD
Gigabyte GA-X79-UP4 Socket 2011 motherboard
Antec Quattro TruPower 1000w modular PSU (also tried daisy chains with a gold certified 650w Silverstone, and a 450w FSP PSU)
CoolerMaster HAFX 932 Full ATX tower
2x EVGA GTX780 6GB ACX cooled video cards
SoundBlaster Recon3D PCI express audio (removed to see if this was the issue, it's not)
16GB Corsair Vengeance DDR3 1600 RAM (all tested good)
LG Blu-Ray burner drive
Shimian 27" IPS 2560x1440 LED monitor
Windows 7 64-bit Home Premium w/all latest updates
 
If this is the wrong place to be posting technical questions, please advise/moderators please move the post.  Any help would be apppreciated.  All the tech help line can suggest is to RMA the card again, which at this point I don't think is the problem.
2014/05/14 15:50:51
Minacious
I haven't played any games yet (none are installed at the moment), but have run some synthetic benchmarks that pushed both cards with no issues.
2014/05/14 16:46:35
druuzil
Minacious
I haven't played any games yet (none are installed at the moment), but have run some synthetic benchmarks that pushed both cards with no issues.


What driver are you using?  Seems like we have similar systems.  Have you benched at 1440p or higher?  I found on the 1st bad card I received that it worked fine if it wasn't using over 3GB of memory.  The EVGA Scanner program doesn't test past 3GB so it won't return any errors in mem tests, yet the card was still bad.
2014/05/14 22:21:52
Minacious
druuzil
What driver are you using?  Seems like we have similar systems.  Have you benched at 1440p or higher?  I found on the 1st bad card I received that it worked fine if it wasn't using over 3GB of memory.  The EVGA Scanner program doesn't test past 3GB so it won't return any errors in mem tests, yet the card was still bad.



I am on 337.50.
Interesting, and concerning, that you say anything over 3GB usage and the cards give up.
I did notice that the Unigine benchmarks only see 3 of the 6GB. I'll need to do something further testing.
I saw these pop up.
2014/05/14 22:31:27
druuzil
Downloading 337.81 right now, will see if it does anything.  Each card I have works individually.  I am using the card I just got yesterday right now, in the 2nd PCI Express slot @8x and was able to run Metro Last Light with no problems, and Heaven benchmark @1440p again with no issues.  Doing the same with my other card is also fine.  Put them in SLI?  Metro causes instant system reboot.
 
Have you installed any games yet?  Strangely it seems like benchmark software doesn't cause the issue but games do.  If there was no SLI profile available, could that be the culprit?  A hard sytem reboot seems like a pretty serious result from simply not having a profile.  Shouldn't the computer simply use just 1 card if SLI is not supported by the driver..?
 
**Edit/Update**

Ok this is incredibly annoying and stupid.  I can run Benchmarks like Heaven, Valley and 3DMark Firestrike and SLI is definitely working, but the instant I try Metro, the computer hard reboots itself.  My 3DMark score went down about 1000 points using those UK drivers also, but it makes no sense that it can properly use SLI, and even run Heaven/Valley @1440p and max settings which should be using pretty darned close to 3gb or more memory, yet ANY game I try to run in SLI causes a hard reboot.  I'm calling EVGA again.. this is ridiculous.
 
**Another Update**
If I run Heaven/Valley in SLI @4k, it will eventually trigger the crash.  I think it has to build up to a certain amount of memory being used to trigger the crash event.  Games are still insta-crash if they utilize SLI and lots of memory.  I was able to play heavily modded HL2 @1440p for like 5 minutes in SLI without a crash, but the moment I try Metro it's insta-crash.
2014/05/17 04:23:23
UnReal-4-Life
Got mine yesterday 6GB 780 super clocked . Its my first *80 I have always had *60 versions  It is brand new it came well boxed not even a scratch on the box. Can Overclock it with out error so far 15% plan to go higher soon. Was worried but now I want one more for sure. 2 of these puppies would be like a Titan-z
2014/05/17 20:41:06
Erubetie
Silly question, and I apologize if it has been answered before. I was checking out the "Details" page on this card, and saw these listed under Interface, "PCI-E 3.0 16x DVI-I, DVI-D, HDMI". These were the only ones listed on sites like Amazon and Newegg as well. However, in the images I can clearly see displayport on the card. The regular 780 also has displayport, so I was just wondering if this was a mistake, or if it really doesn't have displayport. Thanks.

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