9800GT 1GB DDR3 Extremly Bad Performance

Hi!

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.
3dMark score
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

Download GPU-Z. It will tell you everyone you need to know about your graphics card. It will confirm what you really have, just to be sure. The 9800GT Green is not the fastest car on the block. What games is it performing poorly in?

http://www.techpowerup.com/downloads/SysInfo/GPU-Z/

And you downloaded the new 266.58 drivers from Nvidia's site?

Your card could be marked wrong. If GPUZ reports 512MB of Ram that is probably what it has.

http://gpuz.techpowerup.com/10/09/13/cuq.png

Something is F-ed with that card. Here is another GPU-Z from a 9800GT Green. Your ROPS, Bus width, and bandwidth are REALLY low. I think a portion of your GPU is fried or something.

http://www.overclock.net/graphics- [...] -info.html

Hmm, could i possibly be a firmware bug?

The card doesn't have a power connector.

If i could find someone with the same card and do a backup with NVFlash and
try to flash it using a different firmware.

Any other suggestions?

As the card doesnt seem to be fried and it have been slow from when it was new.

Could be, im gonna ask the guy i got it from!

Thx for the help!

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).

Warranty goes to the original owner, don't say you are the second owner of the card.

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.

http://www.techpowerup.com/vgabios [...] &memSize=0

You can, it is all about fooling the driver and other applications into thinking that it is something that it is not. 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. 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.

Can you give us a good picture of both sides of the card? I'm sure that would answer all our questions pretty quickly...

Same picture: http://www.cssc.de/produktinformat [...] &partner=7

Return the card right away.