Graphics Card Help [Solved]

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ok I have a Ati Radeon PCI-E 4350. Its compacity is 512 MB. I recently used Can You Run It? (website) and when I scrolled down to graphics card Can You Run It found a 1280 MB Graphics card… Surely its not mine and this is a terrible mistake Dxdiag also showed the card to be a 1280 MB.

I thought it was a driver problem so I installed the drivers specific for my card and Catalyst Control Centre DOES Show it to be 512MB.

Is this error something I should discard or is my card running at douple what it should be?

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Did you tweak it somehow…? (eg. did you overclock it…?)
asyn

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No overclock at all.
When it was installed when I had my OEM it registered as 512. Also when I installed Vista Ultimate it also registered as 512MB but somewhere at some point it changed no modifications done. No noise from it either, sure is quiet for supposedly runnin double time… but quiet is always bad…Gigabyte makes the card… They sent a disc with the graphics card with a overclocking program not sure if thats help to you. On the install disc it had it marked as optional. I’m just worried about it.

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Download Speccy, install it. http://www.piriform.com/speccy
What does it say…??
asyn

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Core Clock: 650
Memory Clock: 400

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oh here we go… I just know this is going to end in terrible news but

01 Read Error Rate 100 (100 worst) Data 0000000266
04 Start/Stop Count 091 (091) Data 000000257A
05 Reallocated Sectors Count 098 (098) Data 000000000E
07 Seek Error Rate 253 (253) Data 0000000000
08 Seek Time Performance 253 (253) Data 0000000000
09 Power-On Hours (POH) 096 (096) Data 000029382D
0C Device Power Cycle Count 097 (097) Data 0000000ED4
C2 Temperature 184 (099) Data 00000000E8
C5 Current Pending Sector Count 253 (253) Data 0000000000
C6 Uncorrectable Sector Count 253 (253) Data 0000000000
C7 UltraDMA CRC Error Count 100 (100) Data 0000000003
C8 Write Error Rate / Multi-Zone Error Rate 100 (100) Data 0000000000
C9 Soft Read Error Rate 100 (100) Data 0000000000
Temperature 226 °C
Temperature Range bad (greater than 55 °C)
Status Good

This is my hard drive is this bad??

226 degrees!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!? bad is ranging 55 degrees???

I have a hard drive cooler on this drive only. The other drive is running at 29 degrees and this drive is in the machine a little slanted due to the fans could this be why??

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So are we talking about your grafic card or your hd…??
asyn

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I’m sorry it just alarmed me when I saw that and got worried. The Graphics card indicated Core clock speed and 650 and Memory Clock and 400.

When I was browsing the other tabs I made my way to the hard drive one and noticed the above stats and the temperature at what its running. 226 seems hot compared to 29.

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  1. And what does it indicate, if you click on the menue for graphic card…? Has it 512 MB, or what do you exactly want to know, I’m a bit confused…???
  2. Seems to be a problem with the software, as if it really has 226°C, you could fry some eggs for breakfast… ;D
    asyn
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I rather doubt the accuracy of that 225oC temperature, that is bl**dy hot and most computer hardware elements would have given up the ghost long before that, black screen crash or chip burnout, etc.

Temperature inaccuracies like this are usually due to incorrect detection of the sensor type.

See my hard disk stats from speccy, image1 and my graphics card which has always run this hot whilst it is still within the maximum temperature range, image2.

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Thank you.
I do not see where it indicates the size I thought i was reading the size to you?

His picture shows his memory
Mine does not have that one line showing it nor stating it being unavailable its simply not there.

GPU RV710
Device ID 1002-954F
Subvendor Gigabyte (1458)
Technology 55 nm
Die Size 73 nmІ
Transistors 242 M
Release Date Sep 30, 2008
DirectX Support 10.1
DirectX Shader Model 4.1
OpenGL Support 3.0
Bios Core Clock 650.00
Bios Mem Clock 400.00
Driver atiumdag.dll
Driver version 8.14.10.791
Temperature 45 °C
Core Voltage 1.100 V
BIOS Version 113-AAXXXXX-XXX
ROPs 4
Shaders 80 unified
Memory Type DDR2
Bus Width 64 Bit
Pixel Fillrate 2.6 GPixels/s
Texture Fillrate 5.2 GTexels/s
Bandwidth 6.4 GB/s

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Maybe you could specify your question more clearly, as I’m not really getting what you want to know exactly… Thanks…!
asyn

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My dxdiag and another program thats shows my hardware specs indicate my grphics card as an 1280 MB card. Is there a way to correct this? Is it damaging my card?

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@ Probzzie
That is more like the temperature for a graphics chip (45 oC).

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If you didn’t overclock you GC, this must be a false report, as the 226°C in Speccy is…
So you shouldn’t worry about it, imo.
asyn

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I have an nvidia gpu which is 512meg but shared with the system it say’s 1791meg and 2303meg combined so you should not be to concerned plus if your system is running nicely and the graffic’s are working it’s all good :slight_smile:

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True enough just thought I’d ask because if it was indeed overclock it was clocked over double its compacity. It seemed like an issue needing to be resolved.

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Shared system memory varies from chipset to chipset
Like craigb I have 512MB nvidia but I will see shared sys at 1407MB giving 1919MB total
Try SIW from http://www.gtopala.com/ and see what it says

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512MB is what my video card indicates

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What Speccy says about my Windows 7 system:
Graphics
Monitor
Name IBM L170p on Intel G33/G31 Express Chipset Family
Current Resolution 1280x1024 pixels
Work Resolution 1280x962 pixels
State enabled, primary, output devices support
Monitor Width 1280
Monitor Height 1024
Monitor BPP 32 bits per pixel
Monitor Frequency 60 Hz
Device \.\DISPLAY1\Monitor0
Intel(R) G33/G31 Express Chipset Family
Memory 256 MB
Memory type 2
Driver version 8.15.10.1930

Still not sure what you want to know.

Sure would help if you went to PROFILE then Modify Profile then Forum Profile Information then Please select your country: then Signature: and put information about your system just like my signature about your system just like my signature so that the helpers can offer pertinent advice.