Real of fake?

[Master Disaster]

The HD5450 in my mum's office PC died so we've been looking on eBay for a replacement and I found this...

 

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/GTX1050TI-GDDR5-4GB-128Bit-3000MHz-Graphics-Card-DVI-Output-Game-Video-Card-UK/132846300279?epid=0&hash=item1eee41ac77:g:1CAAAOSw0ZRb4P8k:rk:3:pf:0

 

It's a brand new, boxed GTX 1050ti 4GB for £47.99 + free shipping, it's a UK seller too.

 

People are selling used 1050tis for £100 to £150 and they are selling at that price, even the global sellers are asking ~£70 for the same card. I've checked his sales history and he only listed these 2 days, he's sold 6 of them but so far no one has left feedback. He also has 1050s for for £35.

 

What do you guys think? Fake cards?

[Alexokratis]

Yeah those are 100% fake. No VGA Ports on the real 1050ti.

[Guest]

Obviously fake. Look at the shroud and the cooling solution. Also, no GTX 1050ti has a VGA output. 

[Master Disaster]

Just now, Alexokratis said:

Yeah those are 100% fake. No VGA Ports on the real 1050ti.

Thanks, all my alarm bells were ringing.

[Nexxus]

Why would you mom even need something like that? Cany you just get a used gt 730 or something?

[KingBlue72]

play it safe and buy from someone who you can 100% trust

[samcool55]

I would just go to your local IT shop (or internet, whatever you prefer) and buy a brand new cheap graphics card.

Like, new, but the cheapest thing you can get. Anything is a massive upgrade from what she had.

[YaBoiWill]

There are a lot of grammatical errors in the whole of the listing, they claim to be a UK seller, but it seems kind of dodge.

Also they have a whole section dedicated to leaving them 5* positive results and not to leave them anything else. 

[voiha]

There is no VGA support in the official line-up, he shows TV screen and people watching it as a way to market it and there is no branding or at least name of the manufacturer.

 

[Galion]

Who killed the vega ports, the 7000 series did after the 9000 series the nvidia killed off their vga hdmi as minimum

[Master Disaster]

3 hours ago, Nexxus said:

Why would you mom even need something like that? Cany you just get a used gt 730 or something?

Oh no she wouldn't, I was thinking of buying one to stick in my server as it can't do X265/HEVC transcoding very well at all and the 1050 has hardware X265 decoding built in.

 

I ordered her a used R5 230 for £15 which is WAAAAAY more than she needs.

[Nexxus]

3 minutes ago, Master Disaster said:

Oh no she wouldn't, I was thinking of buying one to stick in my server as it can't do X265/HEVC transcoding very well at all and the 1050 has hardware X265 decoding built in.

ahh

[Nexxus]

2 minutes ago, PacketMan said:

 

 

I was afraid obnoxious caps lock, bolded, oversized smartass replies would die. Phew.

[CarlBar]

Hardware Unboxed did a review on GPU based encoding and basically it's trash.

[Nexxus]

2 minutes ago, PacketMan said:

I was afraid obnoxious "I don't know what you need but you don't need that", non-bolded, non-oversized smartass replies would die. Phew.

Know what's more obnoxious than an "I don't know what you need but you don't need that" that still offers a suggestion to ops problem reply?

A reply that is literally not productive to the conversation in anyway shape or form. Congrats, you seem to got that shit on lockdown.

[Alexokratis]

Moom, Daad, stop fighting!