A few interesting questions about my graphics card

[leekaiwei]

First of all, I am not entirely sure what video card I have. I know it is either a Nvidia Geforce 9600 GT or 9600M GT. I know the M version is for laptops but both GPU-Z and Rivatuner states that it is 9600M GT while at boot, before the splash screen when it is showing the GPU Bios Version e.t.c it says 9600 GT. In GPU-Z it also says that the card only has 128MB of memory while at startup it says 512MB. I have compared my specs to the official specs of both desktop and laptop versions and it seems it is closer to the laptop version but it is not exact. In fact the specs are lower than the official.

 

The official drivers don't work, neither laptop or desktop drivers. What does work is dox's customized forceware which as you can tell from the name is customized and so unofficial.

 

Oh, while I'm at it, I overclocked it the other day and re-ran windows 7's index rating. Gaming graphics performance went up from 4.8 to 5.1 but aero performance stayed at 4.8? Shouldn't it increase?

 

Any ideas? Thanks

[Match]

what's it say in device manager? until you know what the card is then you won't be able to get the right drivers.

 

if device manager is no use try downloading this and installing it, the see what it says your GPU is.

[Plastic Nev]

Hi Leekaiwei, welcome to Extreme Tech Support - Free PC Help.

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A few interesting questions about my graphics card

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[Dalo Harkin]

The 2 differences in the cards you think you have is that one is an 'M' which just meas Mobile as in laptop (a mobile GPU will not fit into a standard PC unless modified to such a degree that its not worth the effort)

You will have the non mobile version of the chip - only get drivers from the 2 reference companies NVIDIA or ATI your GPU is from NVIDIA and you should be using this driver

for 32 bit NVIDIA DRIVERS 195.62 WHQL

 

Also do not try and overclock your GPU as the reference coolers are not adequate enough to handle the extra heat