2014/09/29 09:41:18
EVGATech_DaveB
johnksss
Yeah, but the problem is...How did it get missed in the first place?


I do not have a good answer for that, I wish I did.  For what it's worth, I am doing everything I can to try and get this resolved.
2014/09/30 06:29:50
hallowen
First of All, I must acknowledge MANY Thanks for All the Hard Work at the Staff of EVGA in Solving This particular BIOS Problem!
 
After Consulting last night and being contacted by Jacob who has sent me a Few Special BETA BIOS's to try out, But that have NOT BEEN OFFICIALLY RELEASED Due to ongoing Testing with the Techs at EVGA, I am Happy to report I have found one that works and FINALLY have been able to Enable 4-Way SLI using four EVGA 980 SC's on my EVGA X99 Classified Motherboard!

 
I Do Not know When EVGA will Officially Release this Updated BIOS as of Yet, But I am Sure it will be available soon.
 
Here is a Bench on 3DMark Fire Strike Extreme using 4-Way SLI with four EVGA GTX 980 SC's on my EVGA X99 Classified at Factory Stock Settings.
 

2014/09/30 07:22:22
hallowen
4.6GHz OC on CPU and 1401MHz GPU's (OC) / 1753MHz Memory(Stock)
 
 
2014/09/30 09:28:04
EVGATech_DaveB
AWESOME!  Glad to see you are up and going on this, we are finalizing it now, hoping all the checks and balances are done by next week and it is in full release.
 
OK, onto the benching! 
Now I'm torn on appropriate benching music for the current situation.  Either AC/DC Back in Black, or Aerosmith's Back in the Saddle.
 
And to the community, we aren't perfect, and don't claim to be, but I will always do everything in my power to get these things fixed, and I assure all of you, your complaints are NOT falling on deaf ears.
2014/09/30 09:41:59
johnksss
Can you run 31makr11 with it. Thanks.
2014/09/30 10:53:33
nateman_doo
Rudster816
For the right price I might be interested...


I am certain you would put it to good use.  I am surprised you don't have one already.
2014/09/30 11:49:42
Rudster816
nateman_doo
Rudster816
For the right price I might be interested...


I am certain you would put it to good use.  I am surprised you don't have one already.




I lost interest in benching after the 980X came out. It was nice to at least be close to the big boys with the entry level CPU's on X58, but when buying the flagship CPU not only gets you an unlocked multiplier, but two additional cores as well it became pretty futile trying to compete against the guys who could afford $1000 on a CPU. 
 
This changes things a little bit though lol:
 
http://i175.photobucket.c...816/cpuzcpumemmobo.png

 
 
Only caveat is I bought the CPU from Gunslinger and he already binned it under LN2, so I already know how good of a chip it is when its cold. I have a 290X that did 1240\1625 on water when I first took it for a spin. Didn't try too awful hard to get it to go higher though so maybe it has a bit more in her, but I'd say its a pretty good card regardless. Once I complete my WCing\Case project to the point where I can put everything under water I should be able to put in decent single card runs for ambient WCing. For right now though I bought a Hyper 212 Evo for it and I have my old 6870s installed. 
 
2014/09/30 13:09:04
hallowen
OK, First Problem:
So I got the X99 Classified to run 4-way GTX 980 SC SLI on Windows 7 64, But Now I have a problem trying to re-install Windows 8.1 64 on Three hard drives that formerly had Windows 8.1 64 already on them.
Now it seems that when I try to install 8.1 using my same 8.1 disk, it WON"T recognize any of the three Hard Drives that had it originally installed on.
 
Second Problem:
My Original EVGA X58 3-Way SLI Classified that I had in use as my Second Computer, DIED this afternoon on me and now I have to replace the Motherboard with either a used one from Ebay or where ever, or turn it in for an RMA to EVGA who undoubtably will have to replace it with an X79 Board that requires a different CPU (2011 instead of my i7-980 1366).
 
That leaves me with only my Old Dell 9100 Inspiron Laptop to use and if IT goes South, You won't be hearing from me very much.
 
Looks like it's going to be quite a while before I can continue with any more tests/benches until I get these NEW problems sorted out!
2014/09/30 14:06:57
EVGATech_DaveB
Hallowen, I will be following up via PM shortly.
2014/09/30 14:40:52
johnksss
@Rudster816
I had almost bought that chip as well.
 
@Hallowen
Meaning 3 separate drives or raid using 3 drives?
I can probably help you get it installed though.

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