G75VW's GTX670M running at x4 PCIE 2.0

[AgenBlaze]

Laptop just got repaired from a GPU issue and now GPU-Z is only showing that the card is running on x2/x4 speed instead of the standard x16.


Game performance doesn't seem that different so far. Is this just a glitch or is it something else? Currently on latest driver and running Windows 10 64 Bit

[Nate152]

Hi AgenBlaze

Does it ramp up to x16 when playing a game or running a benchmark ?

[AgenBlaze]

Nate152 wrote:
Hi AgenBlaze

Does it ramp up to x16 when playing a game or running a benchmark ?

sadly no ;_;

[Nate152]

Have you tried updating the bios ?

[AgenBlaze]

Nate152 wrote:
Have you tried updating the bios ?

Latest is 223 for the G75VW isn't it?

[Nate152]

yes it is, is that what you have ?

And do you have the latest version of GPU-Z ?

I don't see windows 10 listed for your laptop, I don't know if this could be an issue.

[AgenBlaze]

Nate152 wrote:
yes it is, is that what you have ?

And do you have the latest version of GPU-Z ?

I don't see windows 10 listed for your laptop, I don't know if this could be an issue.

Also on 233

And yes, latest GPU-Z(it doesn't ask for update)


Also I highly doubt win 10 was the issue, before the repair(as in before it broke down in the first place) it was running fine at x16




edit: I'm apparently not on latest version of GPU-Z

will update and report back


updated to GPU--Z 1.17.0 and still shows the same

[Nate152]

Thank you for the screenshot that helps alot. 🙂

Yeah it's definitely showing x4.

I see the G75VW comes with windows 7, did you do the free upgrade to windows 10 ? I don't see why windows 10 wouldn't work, it will however download drivers that may not be the most recent ones.

Have you tried setting the nvidia 3d settings and windows power plan to high performance and see if it goes to x16 ? Also double check you have the nvidia graphics enabled.

Are you able to see in the bios if it's running at x4 ?

I'm sure you have it plugged to the wall for power instead of using the battery but I'll mention just to confirm.

If all else fails try reinstalling the Nvidia driver.

Funny thing is, nvidia gpu's need x8 to run so this makes me wonder if it's running on the cpu graphics or the nvidia and windows high performance options might get it to x16 or reinstalling the nvidia driver.

[AgenBlaze]

Nate152 wrote:
Thank you for the screenshot that helps alot. 🙂

Yeah it's definitely showing x4.

I see the G75VW comes with windows 7, did you do the free upgrade to windows 10 ? I don't see why windows 10 wouldn't work, it will however download drivers that may not be the most recent ones.

Have you tried setting the nvidia 3d settings and windows power plan to high performance and see if it goes to x16 ? Also double check you have the nvidia graphics enabled.

Are you able to see in the bios if it's running at x4 ?

I'm sure you have it plugged to the wall for power instead of using the battery but I'll mention just to confirm.

If all else fails try reinstalling the Nvidia driver.

Funny thing is, nvidia gpu's need x8 to run so this makes me wonder if it's running on the cpu graphics or the nvidia and windows high performance options might get it to x16 or reinstalling the nvidia driver.

Yes I did the free upgrade to Win 10, a long time ago actualyl and did a clean install of it
Windows power plan is already High Performance
Also wall power is the only way this thing can work, battery has been dead for awhile
I did try to reinstall driver yesterday(DDU clean install)
And this thing iirc has no intel GPU(or disabled permanently) because I have the 3D 120HZ version

[Nate152]

Ok, I wasn't 100% sure if it had cpu graphics so this tells us your 670m must be running at x8 or x16 otherwise it wouldn't be working at x4 ? Plus you say you're not noticing any difference in performance.

Are you able to see if it's showing x4 in the bios ?

Was the nvidia driver a successful install ?