Is my GPU severely underclocked?!

Hi, I just recently bought a Sony Vaio FE-48G. This I think is the equivalent of the FE-890 in the U.S. The specs are as follows:

Windows Vista Home Premium
Intel Core 2 Duo T7200 (2 Ghz)
1 GB RAM
nVidia GeForce Go 7600 (128mb dedicated) (255mb shared)
160 GB 5400rpm HD

To check the specs of my video card I downloaded and installed the program HWiNFO 32. This program did a complete check of my system and reported the processor clock as 350mhz real and the memory clock as 350mhz. Memory bus width is 128 bit and there are 8 pixel pipelines. Aren't the clocks supposed to be 450mhz and 500mhz for processor and memory respectively for the 7600? Thanks.

 

All stuff come underclocked because the manufacturers don't want it to overheat early in its lifetime.

Yeh, if you've got Vista and only 1GB of RAM it will run quite slowly.

 

Underclocking GPUs is quite common I'm afraid. My notebook has 425/378 clocks when my GPU was originally designed to operate at 450/450.

Naturally, there should be some utilities that allow you to OC your clocks to "standard" speeds, but heat COULD be an issue.

 

If it makes anyone feel better, the 9200 in my old zt3000 is clocked at 250(core) and 200(mem).

Hmmm...the 9200pro cards were clocked at 275/275, and I am getting a new laptop in the next few weeks...

 

I heard that the GPU will not use Turbocache if you have under 2GB of RAM, is this true?

 

I've used two types of 7600. One had 350 mem, the other 500 but both had 450 core. The mem depends on what speedgrades the mem is, but the core should be able to do 450..

 

Oh pish-posh! Our little laptop still performs quite well The thing is heat is a very real issue. Be sure to check out Charlie's cooling guide and if you do OC past manufacturer clocks, remember to reset it when you're done gaming! *cough*

Hahahaha my 1000th post is harrassing a mod

 

The Go 7600 doesn't have Turbocache. Whatever website told you it had 255 MB of shared system memory lied to you, I'm afraid.

128-bit bus and 8 pixel pipelines is what the Go 7600 should have. The core/memory clocks are underclocked probably because Sony doesn't want heat problems. Their laptops are so thin that setting the graphics card to their default clocks may cause some problems. If you do plan on overclocking, do it with caution.

 

I think I have that exactly same videocard. Most likely, you've got one of the models that uses older VRAM but you can try and get your clock speeds back to default by using coolbits. The clocks that worked for me were 480 core and 369 memory.

 

I got that information from the Display settings-> Advanced Settings menu where it says:

Total Available Graphics Memory: 383mb
Dedicated Video Memory: 128mb
System Video Memory 0mb
Shared System Memory: 255mb

I assumed that shared system memory was the Turbocache, isn't it?

 

Some graphics cards down clock when your not running anything 3d intensive. Try turning on a game and have it measure the speed in the background.

If you want to make sure, send a email to tech support or something and ask them. I did this with my desktop Sapphire X1900XTX and thats what the guy said.