Hey guys,
First off I have absolutely no reason to lie or make crap up, so you can take what I post here with a grain of salt or however you'd like. If anything, I'd just like to get to the bottom of what's in the machine myself, so I'm trying to provide whatever info I can and hoping someone will provide a definitive answer soon enough.
As far as benchmarks, they are what they are. I ran 3DVantage in all default settings (Performance) - definitely lower than what I'd expected but keep in mind I'm running Win 7 Beta with nVidia beta drivers. That said, a Vantage score in the 2500 range is not horrible; however, I'd expected something in the 3000-4000 range.
I ran both GPU-Z and Riva Tuner and thus far the info provided seems suspect. As I understand it these are all database oriented information providers, so all they will do is list info from a fixed database, based on some basic name bits read off the chip. If the database is not accurate, the info is worthless.
I'm posting below the report info Riva Tuner spit out. I don't know what it all means so someone smarter can try to decipher it
The clock speeds all seem really low.
$ffffffffff ----------------------------------------------------------------
$ffffffffff Northbridge information
$ffffffffff ----------------------------------------------------------------
$0400000000 Description : unknown
$0400000001 Vendor ID : 10de (NVIDIA)
$0400000002 Device ID : 0a82
$0400000003 AGP bus : not supported
$ffffffffff ----------------------------------------------------------------
$ffffffffff Display adapter information
$ffffffffff ----------------------------------------------------------------
$0000000000 Description : NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT (Prerelease - WDDM 1.1)
$0000000001 Vendor ID : 10de (NVIDIA)
$0000000002 Device ID : 062e
$0000000003 Location : bus 2, device 0, function 0
$0000000004 Bus type : PCIE
$000000000f PCIE link width : 16x supported, 1x selected
$0000000009 Base address 0 : d2000000 (memory range)
$000000000a Base address 1 : c0000000 (memory range)
$000000000b Base address 2 : none
$000000000c Base address 3 : d0000000 (memory range)
$000000000d Base address 4 : none
$000000000e Base address 5 : 00001000 (I/O range)
$ffffffffff ----------------------------------------------------------------
$ffffffffff NVIDIA specific display adapter information
$ffffffffff ----------------------------------------------------------------
$0100000000 Graphics core : G94 revision A1 (64sp)
$0100000001 Hardwired ID : 062e (ROM strapped to 062e)
$0100000002 Memory bus : 256-bit
$0100000003 Memory type : DDR3 (RAM configuration 00)
$0100000004 Memory amount : 524288KB
$0100000100 Core clock domain 0 : 168.750MHz
$0100000101 Core clock domain 1 : 337.500MHz
$0100000006 Memory clock : 100.000MHz (200.000MHz effective)
$0100000007 Reference clock : 25.000MHz/27.000MHz
And here is the System Info off nVidia control panel:
[Display]
Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU E8435 @ 3.06GHz (3052 MHz)
Operating System: Windows 7 Ultimate, 64-bit
DirectX version: 10.0
GPU processor: GeForce GT 130
Driver version: 181.71
Stream processors: 64
Core clock: 529 MHz
Shader clock: 1323 MHz
Memory clock: 792 MHz (1584 MHz data rate)
Memory interface: 256-bit
Total available graphics memory: 2291 MB
Dedicated video memory: 512 MB
System video memory: 0 MB
Shared system memory: 1779 MB
Video BIOS version: 62.94.74.00.05
IRQ: 23
Bus: PCI Express x1 Gen2
Last but not least, off of GPU-Z:
