Memory clock problem GeForce GT 520

[Prophet607]

Hello everyone!

2 days ago I bought a new grapics card the NVIDIA GeForce GT 520. The problem is that the card specifications on the official website of nVidia are not the same as what my system says (GPU-Z, AIDA64).

On the nVidia website you can see that the memory clock is 900 MHz and the Memory Bandwidth is 14.4GB/s. The interesting thing is both the GPU-Z and AIDA says that the card has 535MHz grapics memory freq. and 8.6GB/s of Memory Bandwidth..

My question is: How is this possible?

I've already tried: Updating drivers (all of the them), Updating BIOS, Reinstalling Windows, Checking other website for specs, Using other programs to check GPU clocks.

System specs:
CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU E7400 @ 2.80GHz
RAM: 4GB DDR3
GPU: GeForce GT 520
MB: Gigabyte GA-G41MT-ES2L
OS: Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit

I am 150% sure that I have the nVidia GeForce GT 520 card and not something else..
I hope someone with better knowledge can help me out.

Any help will be very welcome.
Thanks in advance
James Morgen

 

[96Firebird]

Some models came with slower memory, for example this EVGA GT 520. Stock memory speed is 1GHz with a bandwidth of 8GB/s.

What is the model number if your card?

 

[Prophet607]

And what can I do to get that 900MHz what I paid for? :/

 

[96Firebird]

What is the model number of your card?

 

[Magic Carpet]

What is the model number of your card?

This.

And what can I do to get that 900MHz what I paid for? :/

Return it, if possible. It's not exactly a great card.

 

[Insert_Nickname]

And what can I do to get that 900MHz what I paid for? :/

Are you sure its not just in power-saving mode? The card clocks down both core and memory when not loaded. This is perfectly normal behaviour.

An easy test is to run something with 3D graphics (f.x. Heaven Benchmark or similar) in a window while monitoring the sensor tab of GPU-Z.

 

[96Firebird]

This.

If that is the card, then it is performing as spec'd. What are you doing with this card? Playing games, just regular desktop functions?

 

[TurtleCrusher]

Hello everyone!

2 days ago I bought a new grapics card the NVIDIA GeForce GT 520. The problem is that the card specifications on the official website of nVidia are not the same as what my system says (GPU-Z, AIDA64).

On the nVidia website you can see that the memory clock is 900 MHz and the Memory Bandwidth is 14.4GB/s. The interesting thing is both the GPU-Z and AIDA says that the card has 535MHz grapics memory freq. and 8.6GB/s of Memory Bandwidth..

My question is: How is this possible?

I've already tried: Updating drivers (all of the them), Updating BIOS, Reinstalling Windows, Checking other website for specs, Using other programs to check GPU clocks.

System specs:
CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU E7400 @ 2.80GHz
RAM: 4GB DDR3
GPU: GeForce GT 520
MB: Gigabyte GA-G41MT-ES2L
OS: Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit

I am 150% sure that I have the nVidia GeForce GT 520 card and not something else..
I hope someone with better knowledge can help me out.

Any help will be very welcome.
Thanks in advance
James Morgen

If you're playing newer games, I'd upgrade the CPU so you could get more stable performance. A used Q8400/Q6600 is really affordable on eBay and will really stretch the life of that system out.


A 1066mhz C2Q will likely overclock on that board to 333fsb (3GHZ). A Q8400/Q9xxx couldn't overclock on that board.