Point Of View Drivers Nvidia
If your NVIDIA based graphics card is an older model, then we suggest you update your drivers only if you are experiencing problems while running newer software on your PC. For the complete list of changes, please view the Release Notes available from the NVIDIA driver downloads page. In is becoming a regular ovccurance that the first new nVidia cards we receive come from Point of View. The 8600 GTS they sent us this time again was the first to.
I've got a Point of View GeForce 9800GT 1024MB DDR3 Green. But there seems to be some problems as i only got a score of 2419 on 3DMark06. I've tested with both the drivers that comes with the graphics card and with the latest one from nVidias website. Also tested reinstall Windows 7 and i always get about the same score on 3DMark06.
I've tested a few games as well with really really poor performance. And one more strange thing i've noticed is that when i look at the driver software and click on 'About my system' it reports that i have ddr2 512mb graphics memory. The computer specs are: PSU: Corsair TX 750W CPU: Intel Core™ i5 Quad Processor i5-2500K 3,3GHz, Socket LGA1155, 6MB, Boxed MB: Gigabyte GA-P67A-UD3, Socket-1155 Memory: Corsair XMS3 DDR3 1600MHz 8GB CL9 CMX8GX3M2A1600C9. I remember when these cards came out and couldn't believe they ran with no 6pin power connector. There were all sorts of different versions released from each manufacturer.
The majority performed around the 9600GT performance and that still used a 6 pin connector. This just may be a really chopped down card. 4 ROPS is 1/4 of the standard 9800GT 16 ROPs, and 64bit memory bus is 1/4 of the original 256bit bus. My only though on that is this card is really a terrible design or something is wrong with it. You got it for free so you are not out anything. If it does not have any warranty i do not now what you can do with it. Everything is screwed up with it.
The image is not from my card but as jay posted from the internet. I posted it as a comparison because i got a bigger score(and bigger numbers in gpu-z) with my core 2 duo at 3.4Ghz and my old HD2600XT. If you do not find a way to fix it mechanically or by a bios flash then you can keep it until you get a new one. I suggest one from 6950 above to go with your CPU, if not, send your PC to me, i will put one inside and enjoy it (ha ha ha).
LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL XD Dude that has got to be to most funky card that I have ever seen!!!!! RMA or store return Right Away! A normal 9800gt blows that away and are you even sure that is a real 9800gt even? Why is something that most don't know including the rich know it all types that you can rename the card by editing the bios rom in nbitor to make it appear to the driver as something else. Take a picture of the actual card that you have because you either have a bricked card or a counterfeit 9800gt Second EDIT: Your bios is not even in techpowerup database. I was wondering if you can make some changes to the bios to look like a 9800gt but i was not confident enough to state that, seeing your comment i guess it can be done. Got to remember that.also this is the first card that i have seen to look like this..
You can, it is all about fooling the driver and other applications into thinking that it is something that it is not. Flasheff 2.0 Premium Plus Rapidshare on this page. I was going to bios mod a 9800gt 1gb to sli with a stock gts 250 1gb without using a different bios. You can do this by changing device id and other tags while leaving other things unchanged such as volts, clocks, timings, and profiles.
Nvidia cards can be very funky just like ATI but most don't know it as well as others. Not very many do this so this is extremely rare that this was even posted. Serial Number Phone Clean Pro Serial more. This is the first time that I have seen someone post such a card here on THG. That isn't a normal 9800gt period, it is either defective OR it is what I have suggested.
I can even do a step by step guide how to reproduce this but it may not be something that I should post.