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Benchmark Scores Faster than yours... I'd bet on it. :)
Its supposed to do that at idle. Put a load on the GPU and then check GPUz with that load running.

You also may want to update your system specs as they do not match...
 
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Hi

Upload a Link to make and model of the motherboard or upload a clear pic of the motherboard [Gigabyte EP45 UD6P?] is not shown on Gigabytes web site.

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That's a P45 chipset, right? I don't recognize that MB. It ought to be in PCIe 2.0. Have you checked the BIOS settings? Does it possible require a BIOS update? Is there more than one slot and you maybe have card in wrong slot? That's the most obvious things I can think of right now.
 
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I've a symilar question, I hope you don't mind if I just ask here.

I have my Gigabyte GTX770 4GB plugged into my 16x PCI-E slot yet in the Nvidia Inspector program its says ''16x PCI-E (@8x PCI-E)''. I'm taking a wild guess that my card is running at 8x?

Any ideas how to rectify this?

(Edit: My boards a crappy MSI Z77A-G45 btw)
 
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I've a symilar question, I hope you don't mind if I just ask here.

I have my Gigabyte GTX770 4GB plugged into my 16x PCI-E slot yet in the Nvidia Inspector program its says ''16x PCI-E (@8x PCI-E)''. I'm taking a wild guess that my card is running at 8x?

Any ideas how to rectify this?

(Edit: My boards a crappy MSI Z77A-G45 btw)
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Your card is in the top slot?
 
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HI

Simon998 said:
I've a symilar question, I hope you don't mind if I just ask here.
I have my Gigabyte GTX770 4GB plugged into my 16x PCI-E slot yet in the Nvidia Inspector program its says ''16x PCI-E (@8x PCI-E)''. I'm taking a wild guess that my card is running at 8x? Any ideas how to rectify this?
(Edit: My boards a crappy MSI Z77A-G45 btw)
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Should have started a new thread in the nvidia section;;) could request an admin to move it; Select report.jpg in the bottom left hand side of your post and ask

The MSI Z77A-G45 is not so crappy; support for SLi & Crossfire PCIe 3.0 x16

-Check mobo bios is upto date
-Disable onboard vga/Igp
-Edit Check motherboard chip set drivers are up to date
-Ensure the card is in the top pcie slot
-Check you are running latest drivers and or last stable driver
-Place the card under load [run a game in full screen] and monitor pcie bus

nb: next time you are logged in to the forum, select UserCP at the top of the page and fill in system specs hardware; brandnames and OS

atb (all the best)

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Benchmark Scores Faster than yours... I'd bet on it. :)
Simon998 said:
I've a symilar question, I hope you don't mind if I just ask here.

I have my Gigabyte GTX770 4GB plugged into my 16x PCI-E slot yet in the Nvidia Inspector program its says ''16x PCI-E (@8x PCI-E)''. I'm taking a wild guess that my card is running at 8x?

Any ideas how to rectify this?

(Edit: My boards a crappy MSI Z77A-G45 btw)
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Same way I said to check for the OP, put a load on the GPU (windowed) and see if it goes up to 16x...

Again, it is common for the PCIe badwidth to lower when the GPU is not in heavy use.
 
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Same way I said to check for the OP, put a load on the GPU (windowed) and see if it goes up to 16x...

Again, it is common for the PCIe badwidth to lower when the GPU is not in heavy use.
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I think you are correct :)

Nothing to see here.......move along
 
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GPU-Z have a option just right of the link version and bandwidth info...

give me a sec i take a screen on the win7 rig

here click the "?" and it shows a new windows with a load test that actualize the PcieX info

result
 
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Law-II said:
HI



Should have started a new thread in the nvidia section;;) could request an admin to move it; Select View attachment 52109 in the bottom left hand side of your post and ask

The MSI Z77A-G45 is not so crappy; support for SLi & Crossfire PCIe 3.0 x16

-Check mobo bios is upto date
-Disable onboard vga/Igp
-Edit Check motherboard chip set drivers are up to date
-Ensure the card is in the top pcie slot
-Check you are running latest drivers and or last stable driver
-Place the card under load [run a game in full screen] and monitor pcie bus

nb: next time you are logged in to the forum, select UserCP at the top of the page and fill in system specs hardware; brandnames and OS

atb (all the best)

Law-II
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Hey, thanks for the response.
I didn't want to clutter up the nVidia section for such a small query but I shall in future.

I updated my BIOS there last week due to my Video Card hanging on boot and whilst I done that I installed the latest Intel driver package from Guru3D's website. THe card's in the top slot, although I don't think it matters as all the lanes bar the very bottom one run at 16x on this motherboard as far as I know.

I'll monitor it under stress and see how it reacts. To be honest the cards performing very well, I just noticed this when I opened nVidia Inspector and thought I'd question it incase it was holding the card back.

Thanks again.
 
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can i fix it by update another bios on ?
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can i fix it by update another bios on ?
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Don't know; as the Motherboard model listed in your system spec's [dose not exist] as mentioned here please check again and or provide a pic of the board make and model of computer would also help

+1 GreiverBlade; get a copy of GPU-Z and test
+1 EarthDog

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Fix what? Did you test as was shown a couple posts above you? Please pay attention to what is going on here...:toast:
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done.. but how long for that test?

it nothing else matter :nutkick:
 
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Long enough to see that value you questioned switch to 16x. Which is instant.
 
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done.. but how long for that test?
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If you hit the "?" mark in GPU-Z it will run the test immidiatly and give results in bottom left hand side

nb: would be more helpfull for you and for the TPU commiunity if you actually let them know what it said

Note: HP XW8400 is an OEM workstation; they may have a bios that will allow the board to detect the GTX 460; saying that it is designed with Quadro in mind, Maybe check ~ here for a bios update

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Regarding my little issue, I tried underclocking my CPU and lowering the voltage to give it max stability and ran that test on GPU-Z. I ran it for 15 minutes in both full-screen and in the windowed mode and nothing changed.

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It didnt? I can clearly see it says PCIE 3.0 in the screenshot versus the 1.1 it showed before...

OHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH, you want it to say 16x... not PCIe, LOL. The GPU is in the top 16x slot right? Are there any other cards in the PCIe 16x slots?
 
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It didnt? I can clearly see it says PCIE 3.0 in the screenshot versus the 1.1 it showed before...

OHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH, you want it to say 16x... not PCIe, LOL.
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It looks like to me it is saying he's running PCIe 3.0 at 8x, but it's also telling him it's underperforming because it's actually a x16 lane. Am I getting that right?
 
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Yeah I'm the guy with the 16x problem :p

It's in the top slot, all by itself on the board. I'm even using onboard sound at he moment whilst my card is being RMA'd.
 
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Take the card out, clean the contacts, and put it back in.
 
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It looks like to me it is saying he's running PCIe 3.0 at 8x, but it's also telling him it's underperforming because it's actually a x16 lane. Am I getting that right?
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Yeah it's saying 'PCI-E 3.0x16 @ x8 3.0' when it should be saying 'PCI-E 3.0x16 @ x16 3.0'
 
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