Help with GT 430

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  1. Posts : 14
    Windows 7 Ultimate x64
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    Help with GT 430


    Hi Guys

    Ive got a funny feeling my GPU is not quite working as it should. I have a GT 430 however the highest score i can get in WEI is 5 for my Aero graphics whereas im able to archive 6.5 for 3d. Any ideas what might be causing the aero to be so low????

    Ive been looking at this for a week or so but dont seem to be able to get any advice as to what could be causing this.
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  2. Posts : 6,292
    Windows 7 64 Bit Home Premium SP1
       #2

    Hello GMC82. Welcome to the Forum.

    Have you installed the latest drivers for the GT430 from nVidia?

    Did you just install this video card recently? Or did you just install W7 recently?
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  3. Posts : 14
    Windows 7 Ultimate x64
    Thread Starter
       #3

    TVeblen said:
    Have you installed the latest drivers for the GT430 from nVidia?

    Did you just install this video card recently? Or did you just install W7 recently?
    Hi, yeah mate im running the most recent at the moment, i even tried going down to the versions of driver advised on certain sites the 3d rating changes slightly but the aero never changes from 5.

    The whole machine is new i had it around two weeks ago. Ive replaced the GPU since ive had it as i was getting a lot of blue screens since the replacement no blue screens just the low score.
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  4. Posts : 8,383
    Windows 10 Pro x64, Arch Linux
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    GMC82 said:
    TVeblen said:
    Have you installed the latest drivers for the GT430 from nVidia?

    Did you just install this video card recently? Or did you just install W7 recently?
    Hi, yeah mate im running the most recent at the moment, i even tried going down to the versions of driver advised on certain sites the 3d rating changes slightly but the aero never changes from 5.

    The whole machine is new i had it around two weeks ago. Ive replaced the GPU since ive had it as i was getting a lot of blue screens since the replacement no blue screens just the low score.
    The GT430 is a low-end card, you should not expect any high performance with it :)
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  5. Posts : 14
    Windows 7 Ultimate x64
    Thread Starter
       #5

    yowanvista said:
    GMC82 said:
    TVeblen said:
    Have you installed the latest drivers for the GT430 from nVidia?

    Did you just install this video card recently? Or did you just install W7 recently?
    Hi, yeah mate im running the most recent at the moment, i even tried going down to the versions of driver advised on certain sites the 3d rating changes slightly but the aero never changes from 5.

    The whole machine is new i had it around two weeks ago. Ive replaced the GPU since ive had it as i was getting a lot of blue screens since the replacement no blue screens just the low score.
    The GT430 is a low-end card, you should not expect any high performance with it :)
    I understand the Gt 430 is a low end card but should be more than adequate at hitting above six in the wei scores. Ive been on multiple forums where people with a lower spec machine is getting better scores than mine i.e. ive seen an i3 processor with a gt 430 hitting 6.5 aero and 6.6 3d. The machine also had less RAM than mine.
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  6. Posts : 14
    Windows 7 Ultimate x64
    Thread Starter
       #6

    Hi Guys

    Ive attached a screen shot from this forum of a guy with a gt 430 and an i5 running at 6.7.

    http://img200.imageshack.us/img200/9466/weig.png

    Heres the thread - WEI Graphics went down after SSD install?

    Thanks for the replies guys any help on this appreciated
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  7. Posts : 6,292
    Windows 7 64 Bit Home Premium SP1
       #7

    These are a couple of programs you can run to test your video card to see if there are any hardware issues that can be identified:

    Video Card - Stress Test with Furmark

    Overclockers use this one, but it can also be used by us regular folks:
    https://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials...test-occt.html
    (Thanks Yowan )
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  8. Posts : 14
    Windows 7 Ultimate x64
    Thread Starter
       #8

    Ill carry out some checks with that now and see what comes back cheers mate +rep
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  9. Posts : 14
    Windows 7 Ultimate x64
    Thread Starter
       #9

    Ive ran the tests but dont seem to find any problems, would this identify issues with the motherboard talking to the GPU
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  10. Posts : 6,292
    Windows 7 64 Bit Home Premium SP1
       #10

    It should. By running those tests you have determined that there is not a major hardware issue.

    So as Yowanvista has said, that may be the best you can get with that card installed in your system.

    You might try a clean install of the graphics driver.
    You do this by:

    • Uninstalling the graphics driver and all graphics utilities (PhysX and 3D) from Control Panel > Remove Programs - don't reboot yet.
    • Then delete (or move) the nVidia folder from the C: drive
    • Reboot the computer, Windows will find your video card and install it's own generic WDDM1.1 driver > you will be asked to reboot > do so.
    • Once back on the desktop you can then install the most current nVidia driver for that card clean.

    See if that improves anything.
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