Mobility Radeon 4570 wrong pcie

[Ranmamez]

Hello.
I have a notebook with a mobile ati radeon 4570 512 mb (not shared), running on an Athlon 64 X2 QL-64, chipset 780g (NorthBridge) and SB700 (SouthBridge) as CPU-Z says.
But here's the weird thing: running GPU-Z it shows me that the GPU is "pci-e 2.0 x16 @ x16 1.1".
Lurking on the web I found that either the mobile 4570, either the desktop as much as the mobile version of the 780G chipset, should always be pci-e 2.0.
I don't understand then why it keeps showing me that.
I've tried to run the integrated gpu-z's render-test, even full screen, with no luck at all.
Tried to upgrade drivers, several time until those recent 12.1 ones..... still no avail....
I know it's much of a "cosmetic/aestethic" issue, since for such a low-performance card, the difference between pcie 1.1 and 2.0 it's kind of unnoticeable (almost), but I would like to fix it no matter what, for personal reasons more like...
Can anybody please at least try to help me?
Thank you in advance...

 

[erocker]

Put load on the GPU and check GPU-Z again. It's a power saving feature, nothing to fix.

Idle:

Under load:

 

[Ranmamez]

I DID put load, or at least so it have to be: see the question mark on the right? I clicked it, then ticked "Render in full-screen (for Crossfire / SLI)" and clicked on Start Render Test.
This is the result:

I use Windows Vista Home Premium x86-32 SP2 up-to-date.
Actual catalyst drivers 12.1, but I had the same issue with 11.12 and all the previous driver releases.
Power management is set to High performance.
If that render test is not right, what should I use?
Thank you in advance.

EDIT:
I did another test: I connected a 2nd monitor to the laptop via the vga connector, launched gpu-z 0.5.8, moved it to 2nd monitor, launched 3dmark03 and made it run, still no avail: the pcie still runs at 1.1, the gpu load goes 100%.

Some more info: my laptop is a Packard Bell EasyNote TJ61-SB-008-IT.
Athlon 64 X2 QL-64
4 GB RAM DDR2 667
ATI Radeon 4570 512 MB (Mobile)
250 GB HDD Seagate Momentus (Now I upgraded it to a Samsung 640 GB) sata2
CPU-Z still says it have a 780G Chipset rev. 00 with Southbridge SB700 rev. 00

 

[Sound_Card]

It is interesting that GPUz is reporting your card to be PCIe 3.0 when it should be 2.0.
I don't know exactly what is going on, but the 780G might be allocating lanes to the IGP? Is their a way to disable the IGP in the bios? Try that.

 

[Ranmamez]

It is interesting that GPUz is reporting your card to be PCIe 3.0 when it should be 2.0.
I don't know exactly what is going on, but the 780G might be allocating lanes to the IGP? Is their a way to disable the IGP in the bios? Try that.

You misunderstood: it's erocker that posted his gpu-z screenshots, not me.

 

[Sound_Card]

You misunderstood: it's erocker that posted his gpu-z screenshots, not me.

haha yes I did.
In any case, try disabling the IGP.

 

[Ranmamez]

There's no IGP setting on the bios, and I already flashed the latest bios for my laptop

Any other idea?
Maybe I'll try to install windows xp x32 sp3 and latest drivers just to test it again on a spare hdd i have, but I fear it won't help

 

[Sound_Card]

I wonder if it has anything to do with A-Link Express II?

 

[Ranmamez]

What do you mean?
And would it be fixable somehow?