Added a 3rd card for Tri SLI but noticed a different bios, same part #.

haloeighty8 · 09-03-10, 06:53 PM

Added a 3rd card last night to my setup and the first thing I noticed was the part # is the same but the bios is different? Is this common a occurrence? Or did I somehow get a mislabeled SC card?

GPU 1

GPU 2 - New one added last night.

haloeighty8 · 09-04-10, 09:00 PM

No ones seeing this before?

**crainger** · 09-05-10, 05:17 AM

Unless you buy all 3 cards at the same time, chances are you will get different bios versions, especially with EVGA who constantly release bios updates to fix the odd bug. In the before days in the long ago, different bios versions would break SLI, these days, it's usually k the mix and match.

If everything is running ok, I'd leave it as is, otherwise you can usually get the latest bios from the EVGA support site.

haloeighty8 · 09-05-10, 09:24 PM

Yeah everything seems to be running fine, I'll leave it as is.. Thanks for the reply.

09-03-10, 06:53 PM	#1
haloeighty8 Registered User Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Los Angeles, California Posts: 129	Added a 3rd card for Tri SLI but noticed a different bios, same part #. Added a 3rd card last night to my setup and the first thing I noticed was the part # is the same but the bios is different? Is this common a occurrence? Or did I somehow get a mislabeled SC card? GPU 1 GPU 2 - New one added last night. __________________ My Heatware Intel Core i7-980X Extreme @ 4.33 \| ASUS Rampage III Black Edition \| Corsair Vengeance 24GB DDR3 1600 \| Galaxy GeForce GTX 680 SLI \| Sound Blaster X-Fi Titanium HD \| Corsair H100 - Push /Pull Config. \| Corsair Obsidian Series 800D \| PC Antec TruePower Quattro TPQ1200 \| LG Blu-ray Burner \| Corsair Gaming Audio Series SP2500 \| Das Keyboard Pro \| Logitech G9x \| Intel X25-M 80GB \| Western Digital VelociRaptor 300GB \| Dell 3007 WFP 30" LCD \| Win7 Ultimate x64 \| Sennheiser HD-595 Premier Headphone

09-04-10, 09:00 PM	#2
haloeighty8 Registered User Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Los Angeles, California Posts: 129	Re: Added a 3rd card for Tri SLI but noticed a different bios, same part #. No ones seeing this before? __________________ My Heatware Intel Core i7-980X Extreme @ 4.33 \| ASUS Rampage III Black Edition \| Corsair Vengeance 24GB DDR3 1600 \| Galaxy GeForce GTX 680 SLI \| Sound Blaster X-Fi Titanium HD \| Corsair H100 - Push /Pull Config. \| Corsair Obsidian Series 800D \| PC Antec TruePower Quattro TPQ1200 \| LG Blu-ray Burner \| Corsair Gaming Audio Series SP2500 \| Das Keyboard Pro \| Logitech G9x \| Intel X25-M 80GB \| Western Digital VelociRaptor 300GB \| Dell 3007 WFP 30" LCD \| Win7 Ultimate x64 \| Sennheiser HD-595 Premier Headphone

09-05-10, 05:17 AM	#3
crainger Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Coffs Harbour, NSW, Australia Posts: 29,535	Re: Added a 3rd card for Tri SLI but noticed a different bios, same part #. Unless you buy all 3 cards at the same time, chances are you will get different bios versions, especially with EVGA who constantly release bios updates to fix the odd bug. In the before days in the long ago, different bios versions would break SLI, these days, it's usually k the mix and match. If everything is running ok, I'd leave it as is, otherwise you can usually get the latest bios from the EVGA support site.

09-05-10, 09:24 PM	#4
haloeighty8 Registered User Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Los Angeles, California Posts: 129	Re: Added a 3rd card for Tri SLI but noticed a different bios, same part #. Yeah everything seems to be running fine, I'll leave it as is.. Thanks for the reply. __________________ My Heatware Intel Core i7-980X Extreme @ 4.33 \| ASUS Rampage III Black Edition \| Corsair Vengeance 24GB DDR3 1600 \| Galaxy GeForce GTX 680 SLI \| Sound Blaster X-Fi Titanium HD \| Corsair H100 - Push /Pull Config. \| Corsair Obsidian Series 800D \| PC Antec TruePower Quattro TPQ1200 \| LG Blu-ray Burner \| Corsair Gaming Audio Series SP2500 \| Das Keyboard Pro \| Logitech G9x \| Intel X25-M 80GB \| Western Digital VelociRaptor 300GB \| Dell 3007 WFP 30" LCD \| Win7 Ultimate x64 \| Sennheiser HD-595 Premier Headphone