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Monday, September 19, 2016 1:53 AM (permalink)
I just picked up a Classified at Microcenter yesterday and I have 2 questions about it. First, what are the 5 white LEDs on the top of the board to the left of the power connectors? I'm guessing power meter, but they stay fully lit up in all situations no matter GPU load. Second, in review videos the BIOS switch is a "master" and "slave" switch, however mine has a "normal" and "LN2" switch. Why is there a discrepancy and does the LN2 switch provide the same benefits of the slave BIOS or does it perform different functions? Thanks.
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    Re: 1080 Classified Questions Monday, September 19, 2016 2:02 AM (permalink)
    I bought 2 from them recently as well.. actually 4 total. Took r to get 2 good functioning cards.

    Those lights as I've read in another thread are for troubleshooting hardware problems. If one is out you can quickly find out the problem.. howe when there's no documentation on it? Well maybe customer support. Anyways.. you want to see the lights on. If one is out there's a problem.

    That ln2 is also the slave bios. Why didn't they just list it slave?? No idea.. maybe that's what they called it in the past with the classifieds so they kept it the same.. strangely they list it as master and slave on the ftw cards.

    The slave bios changes the fan profile to always on and gives you the option of +130% power.

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    Re: 1080 Classified Questions Monday, September 19, 2016 2:28 AM (permalink)
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    I bought 2 from them recently as well.. actually 4 total. Took r to get 2 good functioning cards.

    Those lights as I've read in another thread are for troubleshooting hardware problems. If one is out you can quickly find out the problem.. howe when there's no documentation on it? Well maybe customer support. Anyways.. you want to see the lights on. If one is out there's a problem.

    That ln2 is also the slave bios. Why didn't they just list it slave?? No idea.. maybe that's what they called it in the past with the classifieds so they kept it the same.. strangely they list it as master and slave on the ftw cards.

    The slave bios changes the fan profile to always on and gives you the option of +130% power.



    What was wrong with the first 2 that you got? Hopefully someone from EVGA can give us 100% confirmation on the LEDs. It's weird that stuff like this isn't listed anywhere.
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    Re: 1080 Classified Questions Monday, September 19, 2016 3:02 AM (permalink)
    They would always show voltage limit 1 on evga's precision X oc. Can see it while having the osd on during benchmark testing and gaming on load. If i was to overclock even the slightest I would end up with a power limit 1,temp 1 and voltage 1 right away.

    The last one I exchanged I even down clocked the card to -200mhz (1600) and it would still do voltage limit 1 right away.

    Both good cards that never happends. Ino order for me to get that to happen is havery to basically lower the fan profile to get the card too hot to handle the clock.

    I believe both good card will boost to 2025mhz and can overclock to 2164mhz and hold it runing just one card. Together I can only keep them at 2114mhz stable cause of the added heat. If i could water cool no doubt I'd get 2164mhz all day long.

    Placing a fan blowing in from the left side where you plug in your monitor cable helps alot to get cool air where it's needed. 5-7c drop just from that alone. I only have 1 slot spacing between the cards. And I even have another fan blowing from the right side as well and have an aggressive fan profile that hits 85% around 45c and 100% at 50c.

    With a single card in its not hard to keep it cool in the 50's.

    When I went to exchange the one card the first time they had 15 classifieds.. 2 days later when I went back to exchange the card the salesman at mc said they had 42! Haha..

    It's a nice card.

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