solved GTX 1050 being detected as GT 730; benchmarking shows worse performance than a 730

[Chadwickian]

Hello all, I recently changed my Mum's motherboard for her - she has my old GTX 1050, which worked perfectly fine before, but after the swap it seems to be performing abysmally; I decided to run a UserBenchmark, with this being the results: https://www.userbenchmark.com/UserRun/38442212 The card is performing in the 13th percentile for a GT 730; it should be running almost 10x better. I used DDU to remove the drivers, which was successful, but when I went to install the drivers that should work on a GTX 1050 it said that it was not supported on this version of Windows, and that there was no compatible graphics hardware. I installed an older version of the driver which installed without error; but the card still performs terribly and thinks it's a GT 730. Does anyone have any ideas on how to resolve this? The driver that doesn't work is this one: https://www.nvidia.com/en-gb/drivers/results/169129/ , but the page says that it supports the GT 730 (and GTX 1050); the one that 'works' is this one: https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/drivers/results/109860/

[jaslion]

Install gpu z and post a pic of it

[Chadwickian]

Sorry for the phone image, currently jumping between computers.

[Chadwickian]

It's definitely not, I bought it off Amazon 2-3 years ago and it was working fine; I have another GTX 1050 in my computer currently, so I'll swap them and see what happens to either computer. The hard drive in the computer did have a GT 730 connected to it for a brief time, but not recently.

[TVwazhere]

What Rear I/O does the GTX 1050 have? Does it have a DVI, an HDMI and a Display port?

 

Or does it have a VGA port instead of a DisplayPort?

 

Just because you bought it off amazon doesnt mean it's impossible to get scammed?

[Downkey]

24 minutes ago, Chadwickian said:

Hello all, I recently changed my Mum's motherboard for her - she has my old GTX 1050, which worked perfectly fine before, but after the swap it seems to be performing abysmally; I decided to run a UserBenchmark, with this being the results: https://www.userbenchmark.com/UserRun/38442212 The card is performing in the 13th percentile for a GT 730; it should be running almost 10x better. I used DDU to remove the drivers, which was successful, but when I went to install the drivers that should work on a GTX 1050 it said that it was not supported on this version of Windows, and that there was no compatible graphics hardware. I installed an older version of the driver which installed without error; but the card still performs terribly and thinks it's a GT 730. Does anyone have any ideas on how to resolve this? The driver that doesn't work is this one: https://www.nvidia.com/en-gb/drivers/results/169129/ , but the page says that it supports the GT 730 (and GTX 1050); the one that 'works' is this one: https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/drivers/results/109860/

Use a different benchmark. User benchmark is horrible and inconsistent. 

[Chadwickian]

I'll check shortly, I'm in an online lesson at the moment; the reason I'm so adamant that it wasn't a scam card was because it was performing the same as my current 1050 until I swapped the motherboard. I believe it has HDMI DVI and VGA. I also still have the box, which might help.

[Chadwickian]

1 minute ago, Downkey said:

Use a different benchmark. User benchmark is horrible and inconsistent.

What would you suggest; would 3DMark be a better alternative?

[TVwazhere]

1 minute ago, Chadwickian said:

I believe it has HDMI DVI and VGA. 

No 1050's launched with a VGA port on it. If it has a VGA port, it's a GT730 that had its cooler swapped and sold online as a GTX 1050. It happens a LOT. 

[Downkey]

Just now, Chadwickian said:

What would you suggest; would 3DMark be a better alternative?

Yes. I'm not exactly sure how to help with your GT 730 problem but I would just use a different benchmark overall.

[Chadwickian]

2 minutes ago, TVwazhere said:

No 1050's launched with a VGA port on it. If it has a VGA port, it's a GT730 that had its cooler swapped and sold online as a GTX 1050. It happens a LOT. 

I'll check to make sure in a few minutes.

[Chadwickian]

Thank you all for helping; it is indeed a GT 730, but a genuine one - with one mystery solved, I'm left to solve another; where my other GTX 1050 went. Sorry for being so arrogant.