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German retailers have sold fake GTX660's without their knowledge

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So apparently from somewhere the german market has gotten fake GTX660 into circulation that are actually Fermi based GT440's

 

Found only German articles so heres a rough Google Translation

 

"On the German market counterfeit graphics cards with NVIDIA GPUs are currently available, the product name, a GeForce GTX 660 deceives. They carry the designation "Nvidia GTX660 4096MB Bulk". However, the specifications of the graphics card are quite different from a real GeForce GTX 660 graphics cards, it is an older generation with manipulated VGA BIOS.

Circulated, the maps of Brunswick wholesalers Kosatec. He listed the cards on his website as a residual item. The article showed a picture of the retail card company Zotac inclusive package. Zotac distanced himself quite clearly from it and announced his intention to turn his legal department.

As a wholesaler Kosatec has delivered the card to numerous German online stores. For example, even Jacob Elektronik has listed the card. There c't has acquired such a card for 163,80 Euro. In the c't lab, it turned out quickly that it is not a GeForce GTX 660 at the map"

 

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So those 780s on eBay that have 2Gb of VRAM are probably 560s.

 

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Please post non-google-translate link...

 

Also, where did these cards come from??

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So those 780s on eBay that have 2Gb of VRAM are probably 560s.

i doubt 560 is still a good card 

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There was some graphics card that claimed to be a 780 on Amazon a while back. It's description read

Package include:

1x The graphic

1x the power connector

yeah...

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So those 780s on eBay that have 2Gb of VRAM are probably 560s.

I have heard reports they're about as powerful as that so that could be true somebody should buy one and check it out to see for sure.

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Please post non-google-translate link...

 

Also, where did these cards come from??

If someone will find one I will add it to the main post. But the trail seems to be leading to Point of View currently.

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If someone will find one I will add it to the main post. But the trail seems to be leading to Point of View currently.

 

Point of View?

Are they the wholesaler/importer for the cards??

 

Still, I wouldn't be surprised if I find any of those fakes around in my country (assuming they originate from China/Taiwan)... I'll be hitting the shops when I reach 3500PhP (~70USD) and I'll look for things there...

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i doubt 560 is still a good card 

 

The GPU itself is as good as a 750, but the 1GB less VRAM is a bottleneck in most modern games.

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Well thats a shame

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It's like this GPU from ebay: "Similar with 780!", and "Memory Type: DirectX10"

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Similar-with-GTX780-2GB-384Bit-GDDR3-PCI-Express-2-0x16-Video-Graphics-Card-Hot-/171379870764?pt=PCC_Video_TV_Cards&hash=item27e7094c2c

 

I like this eBay one.. to be honest. Based o the specs it's probably a GeForce 9600 or 8200 or something in that range.

And look at the picture of the card:

$_57.JPG

 

Side View!

$_57.JPG

You were fooled! You thought it was a big heatsink for a second! Nope. Only a shitty thing.

 

Anyway. just remember


It was produced by Taiwan graphic manufactory which has 10 years experience on this.
And it's very good quality and has a wonderful praise by our customers.

 

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-snip-

Similiar with 780 as in "can out put graphics" 

That ebay one is just some misleading advertising, not really pretending to be a 780

 

Also, usually you can see directly that the card is fake if they provide pics

And as far as I know Point of View does similiar stuff as Zotac, MSI and Club3d, putting their own pcb and cooler on those cards/chips (idk what the real name for that is)

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i doubt 560 is still a good card 

Well, you are wrong

It's still a beast

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You can tell by the performance,,,

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Really hope that Hardwareversand have not been affected :/

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