I'm just looking for reassurance here:
My pair of XFX6800GT's turned out to be the same revision, version2, however they are a different colour and have slightly different electrical components. Despite being sold in the same order at the same time, from apparently the same batch, one card has a GREEN NVIDIA reference A04 PCB and the other has a BLUE NVIDIA reference A04B PCB
When my system was running (for 4 days, now not due to mobo), SLI appeared to work, but only with 66.93 drivers. I couldn't get SLI framerates out of the 71.25 drivers - 71.25 was not activating the second card, even tho they said they were. At the time I put this down to the 71.25 drivers being a bit pants, and went about my day enjoying scores of ~8500 in 3Dmark05.
Now, I read a horrible rumour that XFX PCIe cards supplied with a METAL BAR running along the top of the card, covering the 'goldfingers' (which both mine had), are early batches that WILL NOT RUN SLI ? Wtf?! Is there any truth in this - is this why I was having issues with 71.25 drivers?
I'm sending my mobo and PSU with RMA, and was wondering if it was worth sending the GFX cards back too, to try and get a matched pair just in case... What does everyone think?
S.
EDIT: Tidied up and cut the babble.