ok I tried both CPUZ and GPUZ but I'm not technical enough to understand what I'm looking at.

is it possible some software is bottlenecking the GPU and causing me to NOT get my full 2gb as I was when I first installed the video card??

the only thing that increased my benchmark score a bit was uninstalling and reinstalling the video driver. (which came out to 5200 something), but I want my 8301 score back!!

are there any other methods to try and figure out what's causing this??

thanks