I really wanted to share this because it cost me, oh about, 2 months and a ton of heartache.
I build a monster rig with a watercooled GTX 295 and ever since day one I had serious flickering issues with the video card in SLi mode. (it has 2 cores)
I searched high and low for a solution across the net to no avail. I RMAed the card twice, didn't help. But the key to figuring it out was the second time I RMAed it worked for a minute or 2 then as soon as I opened the NVidia control panel it started flickering again.
This is what made me finally figure it out. I had a resident driver for my monitor installed that never really uninstalled when I tried the myriad of driver changes and configs to get it fixed.
Long story short:
- Yes the GTX 295 is awesome and works great
- You should probably start with a fresh install of all drivers and NOT install a resident monitor driver. Also make sure a resident monitor driver wasn't automatically installed.
- EVGA was really cool about the RMAs but the shipping started adding up.
My specific setup is as follows:
- EVGA GTX 295 Water Cooled edition
- BFG 1200w power supply
- Acer X222 monitor
I hope this helps anyone else struggling with this obscure but crazy hard to figure out problem.
Tony D.