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Question about Powercolor HD 2400 Pro PCI?

I recently bought the Powercolor HD 2400 Pro (PCI) card for my old Dell E310. It works fine and I have been able to play Crysis and whatnot. However, just today I downloaded GPU-z and for some reason it shows my card as running at 445MHz core and 396MHz memory, when it says default is 525MHz core and 400MHz memory which is also what newegg lists it as. Why is my card underclocked and is there a way to fix this? The BIOS is locked so I cannot overclock it to normal settings, but is there a way around that?

Here is a GPU-z picture...

http://gpuz.techpowerup.com/08/12/11/fwk.png

Also it show's the card as PCIe x1 when its actually just normal PCI.

Update:

I have the latest drivers from Powercolor installed also.

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  • 1 decade ago
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    My guess is that your card has throttled down as not to overload the limited 33mhz bus of PCI. I'm not sure though could be something else.

    You could try ATI tool, its an easy overclocking utility for ATI cards. I really think that you have too much card for your PCI slot. Theres just not enough bandwidth at 33mhz to transfer info at speeds your card is capable of to other parts of you system.

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