Hello guys! well This is not a problem, but this things is bothering me.

Well I have bought a Nvida 560 Ti Card, everything is perfect, just I have a problem

For one reason my motherboard detects that my video card is working with PCIe 8x, but everybody knows that this video card works in PCIe 16x
When I see the Nvidia Control Panel, it reports that the Video Card is installed in a PCIe 8x 2Gen
GPUz reports me the same, but when I render something GPUz reports me that the video card is in a PCIe 16x 2.0
The bios information reports that the video card is running in a PCIe 8x Slot

Here is some screenshots of GPUz and Nvidia Settings:
Video card when it is idle

Video card when it renders something:


Nvidia Settings:


And for one reason the Windows Experience Index is too low for this video card, for Graphics and Game Graphics I got a score of 6.7 O.o


My hardware is this:
Motherboard: Intel DP55WB
RAM 8GB (4 Kingston 2Gb RAM running at 1333)
Processor Intel Core i5 650 @3.2 GHz
Video Card: ViewMax Nvidia 560 Ti
Power Supply: Coolmax at 700W

Thanks for the help!

i think that something is wrong with your 560 ti, maybe your drivers are out dated.

Here is my 550 ti from nVidia control panel:



Windows Performance :




P.S: How did you overclock your RAM ? i also have kingston 4 gig RAM but its running at 665 MHz....

1333MHz is a standard speed for DDR3. If you're at 665MHz (Actually 667MHz) then you're likely using older DDR2.

I have the latest version of the Nvidia Drivers and yes 1333MHz is the standard speed for a DDR3 Memory

I was thinking that the problem is the PCIe speed (it says 8x instead of 16x), Could it be the problem?

annihilator, your 550ti has better clocks that mine, did you overclocked it?

Video card when it renders something:


Is it just me or is the card reported to be running at 1x?
Because GPUZ format is [Supported PCI Xx Supported PCI Gen]@[Current PCI Xx Current PCI Gen]

Here is my GPUZ Reading:

I also have a weird thing or is it meant to do it, my PCI Gen fluctuates from 1.1 to 2.0

Here is my performance reading just for reference:

For one reason your video card has better specifications that the standard Nvidia 560 Ti, and the mine has the same that Nvidia Page says.

Here is the Specifications from Nvidia:
Graphics card version GTX 560 Ti
CUDA Cores 384
Graphics Clock (MHz) 822
Processor Clock (MHz) 1645
Texture Fill Rate (billion/sec) 52.5
Memory Specs:
Memory Clock (MHz) 4008 Gbps
Standard Memory Config 1024
Memory Interface GDDR5
Memory Interface Width 256-bit
Memory Bandwidth (GB/sec) 128

I'm so confused! xD
Could be the fabricant (ViewMax)???

For the record, Tailmon, your Windows Experience score is just the LOWEST of the scores reported in the various tests the utility runs. As you can see in your own screenshot, the disk transfer rate scored 5.9. That's where your WE score came from.

Yes, I know that, my Total Windows Experience Index is 5.9, BUT why the video card Experience index (Game Perfomance and Graphics perfomance are lower than another 560ti video cards?, in this case is 6.7 for both)

What's the difference between 8x and 16x?

bad choice for a username...