So one of my 970's are upgrading to a (says pending right now) 1060 FTW+  DT Gaming  06G-P4-6366-KR on an RMA evga received last Friday.
But my other 970 is still good so now I wont get that sweet sli.
Should I just run the 1060 by itself if I actually do get it? (really gonna miss that sli)
I don't want to neglect my working 970 if it still might last a bit longer :D
First world problems.. lol
 
 

Ok great I did click the bubble for the sli to hopefully get another 970 but looks like they are out of course but I only sent in the 1 970 so looks like I gotta fork over another 60 to send the other I guess. East coast shipping from.

like sajin said  [kinda a]   if your using SLI and one goes bad  you check the sli box  and if evga don't have a matching card /sli compatible direct replacement   you would then need to send in both cards to get 2 cards back  to maintain  your SLI set up .. 
 
so you had 2 970's  and no RMA replacement  of sli compatible  970's  and they offer you a 1060   you have the SLI checked off  in the rma statement  you then send in the 2 970's to get back 2 1060's    ..
 
now if you did not do this up front  to start with ?????   its now between you and evga to work it out   .  just remember  with the miners  garbing up all the cards and the stocks and prices are how they are today   you don't know how well they would want to work that out after the fact  ?
 
seeing you claim you did check the box for SLI I'm sure EVGA will work it out just fine    . you send in the 970 and get back another 1060  for youer sli set up..
 
thing is  does a 1060 do SLI ??   see you now may need to send in the 1060  as well    .   I thought that SLI was 1070's and above only
 
''Nvidia has confirmed that the GTX 1060 will not support SLI saying that they are focusing SLI on the enthusiast gaming/hardcore markets. The GTX 1060 does not have an SLI connection on the GPU''

ya but theres no bridge tab  so it has to run off the boards slots
 
like from here
 
''The GTX 1060s do not have SLI fingers and can only communicate via the PCIe bus, without a bridge, thereby demanding that applications support MDA (Multi-Display Adapter) or LDA Explicit (Linked Display Adapter) to actually leverage both cards. NVidia does not officially support dual GTX 1060s.''
 
https://www.gamersnexus.net/guides/2519-gtx-1060-sli-benchmark-in-ashes-multi-gpu
 
I'd get back with evga for something real life and practical  to use

Sajin

Dr.Death
ya but theres no bridge tab  so it has to run off the boards slots
 
like from here
 
''The GTX 1060s do not have SLI fingers and can only communicate via the PCIe bus, without a bridge, thereby demanding that applications support MDA (Multi-Display Adapter) or LDA Explicit (Linked Display Adapter) to actually leverage both cards. NVidia does not officially support dual GTX 1060s.''
 
https://www.gamersnexus.net/guides/2519-gtx-1060-sli-benchmark-in-ashes-multi-gpu
 
I'd get back with evga for something real life and practical  to use

True, but the first version of sli (used on 900 series cards and below) never really communicated over the bridge until pascal (10 series cards) were released. How do I know that? I tested performance with and without the sli bridge on my titan x maxwell cards. The performance was the same no matter if the sli bridge was on or off.

Umm, EXCUSE ME! That is not true. Maybe your system configuration for some reason didn't utilize the SLI bridge due to your modern motherboard, modern drivers, modern graphics card, or whatever reason it decided that the SLI bridge wasn't necessary, but it is completely false to say that SLI didn't use to use the SLI bridge. There are a lot of people who have used SLI with PCI-E v1.0 and v2.0 motherboards who would strongly disagree with you. For one, me. I have first hand experience where a damaged SLI bridge or poor bridge contact caused artifacts, a strobe effect, or color issues; and where the lack of SLI bridge caused SLI to either stop working or decreased performance by a large amount.

Regarding the person seeking assistance, you neer to assert yourself. EVGA owes you an official, proper working SLI configuration to replace your SLI configuration. I would definitely cry fowl if they try to replace only one video card with a non-SLI compatible replacement or try to give you two 1060 cards and tell you to make SLI work using unofficial methods.

https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/products/10series/geforce-gtx-1060/
 
NVIDIA SLI^® Ready =  NO!  
 
maybe someone prefers the unofficial way .   all I see is you got a sli supported official from NVidia  and in return you got a unsupported sli not NVidia supported card in return  ..
 
I guess if you prefer to afro engineer  SLI with a 1060 like above  in the gamers nexus link or something  and ''HOPE'' it works out , then more power to ya  on that..   your all ready getting short changed going from a 900 series to a 10 series to start with  just in what the cards cant support  that a 900 series can   if it was needed  ..    limited OS support no native analog support  no sli support   no this no that  that the 900 series has  out of the box   [for the same prices . go figure ? ]
 
seems like evga sending him a 1060 was in the hopes they could pull a fast one   even if it was true he checked SLI box  on the RMA  evga should of known better then send a 1060 to start with .
 
anyway I would ask there support how that SLI is going to work using there 1060 in your system 
 
https://www.quora.com/How-can-I-use-2-GTX-1060-in-SLI

Sajin
Obviously contacting evga is the best thing to do since the 1060's don't support sli.

I see the live chat pop up on the bottom on main page I'll see what they say there.

Glad to hear it will get sorted. 

EVGA ALWAYS says the sli box isn’t ticked. Makes me wonder why they put the selection if it NEVER tells them that sli is selected.

I selected it and included IN the ticket that I had a 4 way sli with my 780ti, and they said they were sending me a 980... after asking about the SLI compatibility, they told me I hadn’t checked it, so I sent a picture of it checked and showed them the ticket saying it was 1 card from a 4 way sli, and they said they didn’t see the sli option selected... clearly the selector box doesn’t function.

I did an RMA on my GTX 470s . Checked the SLI box & chatted w/support . Sent in the 470s and got 2 960 2gb SSC cards in their place .  Never going to get rid of them , the lifetime warranty transferred to them !

unknown_sage
That makes it worse. I got the email from ups later this evening and one reference said the op post model 06G-P4-6366-KR so they def. sent the 1060.
So if this box that I clicked for sli really doesn't work like some of you say, EVGA should have fixed this long ago.
I know I clicked it. Why wouldn't I?
That's real bad customer relations imo.

 
looking at miners and how a  200$ card is now selling for 600- 1000 $   evga may be trying to cover there butts anyway they can on things as this   and hoping they can slide one over on someone   when they can ..
 
https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=9SIA85V5WC3037

the_Scarlet_one
EVGA ALWAYS says the sli box isn’t ticked. Makes me wonder why they put the selection if it NEVER tells them that sli is selected.

I selected it and included IN the ticket that I had a 4 way sli with my 780ti, and they said they were sending me a 980... after asking about the SLI compatibility, they told me I hadn’t checked it, so I sent a picture of it checked and showed them the ticket saying it was 1 card from a 4 way sli, and they said they didn’t see the sli option selected... clearly the selector box doesn’t function.

+1 My story is the same, 100% checked the box but was told it wasn't selected.

Dr.Death

vincinator44

the_Scarlet_one
EVGA ALWAYS says the sli box isn’t ticked. Makes me wonder why they put the selection if it NEVER tells them that sli is selected.

I selected it and included IN the ticket that I had a 4 way sli with my 780ti, and they said they were sending me a 980... after asking about the SLI compatibility, they told me I hadn’t checked it, so I sent a picture of it checked and showed them the ticket saying it was 1 card from a 4 way sli, and they said they didn’t see the sli option selected... clearly the selector box doesn’t function.

+1 My story is the same, 100% checked the box but was told it wasn't selected.

'' so I sent a picture of it checked and showed them the ticket saying it was 1 card from a 4 way sli, and they said they didn’t see the sli option selected''
 
that's key with any of this dealing with anyone / brand ..    have some proof that things are as YOU say  if any discrepancy's occur /screenshots , copies , ect..  

OK as far as I know when I ticked the sli box/bubble and sent it through I didn't see a way to get a screenshot of it after it went through.
It's not like one would know this would need to be done because it doesn't work especially when they told me to tick it on the phone which I did.
Now that the rma is on it's way in my account it shows nothing for open rma and when it did say pending before it shipped there was no info whether or not I selected sli on my side anyways.
If I had known I would have taken the screenshot of it ticked before I sent it through.
Now here's more issues if I try to send the 1060 back and it isn't an sli capable card the tick box wont show probably and I'll have to tell them on the phone I did select sli on the original card.
I'm just a little frustrated it did not work to begin with.
So now after seeing that you sent in the picture of it selected it that means you either had another rma or found out somehow the box didn't work.
So now I ask you how I could have proof of something broke when I find out it is after the fact the evidence wont show after the rma is sent through?

ty_ger07

Sajin

Dr.Death
ya but theres no bridge tab  so it has to run off the boards slots
 
like from here
 
''The GTX 1060s do not have SLI fingers and can only communicate via the PCIe bus, without a bridge, thereby demanding that applications support MDA (Multi-Display Adapter) or LDA Explicit (Linked Display Adapter) to actually leverage both cards. NVidia does not officially support dual GTX 1060s.''
 
https://www.gamersnexus.net/guides/2519-gtx-1060-sli-benchmark-in-ashes-multi-gpu
 
I'd get back with evga for something real life and practical  to use

True, but the first version of sli (used on 900 series cards and below) never really communicated over the bridge until pascal (10 series cards) were released. How do I know that? I tested performance with and without the sli bridge on my titan x maxwell cards. The performance was the same no matter if the sli bridge was on or off.

Umm, EXCUSE ME! That is not true. Maybe your system configuration for some reason didn't utilize the SLI bridge due to your modern motherboard, modern drivers, modern graphics card, or whatever reason it decided that the SLI bridge wasn't necessary, but it is completely false to say that SLI didn't use to use the SLI bridge. There are a lot of people who have used SLI with PCI-E v1.0 and v2.0 motherboards who would strongly disagree with you. For one, me. I have first hand experience where a damaged SLI bridge or poor bridge contact caused artifacts, a strobe effect, or color issues; and where the lack of SLI bridge caused SLI to either stop working or decreased performance by a large amount.

Regarding the person seeking assistance, you neer to assert yourself. EVGA owes you an official, proper working SLI configuration to replace your SLI configuration. I would definitely cry fowl if they try to replace only one video card with a non-SLI compatible replacement or try to give you two 1060 cards and tell you to make SLI work using unofficial methods.

I get what you are saying but I do think his has merit as well because I think it's card dependant. I see 0 performance difference in using the SLI bridge or not on my 980s in both a z97 setup or where they now reside on an old X58. However I can't remember if it was my 480s or 670s that wouldn't boot and would even display a post message saying something along the lines of "please connect bridge". On my 670s I had some significant stuttering and flicker issues which ended up being a bad solder on the ribbon SLI bridge I was using. Both of those issues give evidence that significant communication is happening across the bridge. But on my 980s? Nope. I'd like to see more in depth as to why because my 1080ti's for sure use it. Odd it's just that one series.

@UnknownSage
Just call tech support and let them know about this thread, and that you ticked the sli box.
They 'should' cover the shipping of ALL the video cards, back to them, and back to you.
They 'should' also cover the sli option, and give you 2 1070 cards back, or just 1 of the 970 (if they have any in stock), to get you back to sli.
EVGA has not been very good to me with my titan x issues, but they have always 'tried' to get me a working card. I see no reason that they wont for you also.
I have never read anything about anyone having a bad experience with them shipping cards back to people.
Just call tech support.