Yikes! What is this thing? Fake?!

[JDBSTR]

Bought a used system to upgrade for a buddy, Seller had no idea of the specs, I bought the whole build super cheap, with plans on adding ram/gpu etc etc....

 

Pulled out this bad larry lol, its labeled as a "GTX650" it is unbranded

 

WTF is it? 

[SignatureSigner]

Looks like a wish card to me... lol

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[JDBSTR]

1 minute ago, SignatureSigner said:

Looks like a wish card to me... lol

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That is also the only thing I could also think of

[Ashleyyyy]

the specs on the sticker are all correct for a GTX 650...

[SignatureSigner]

1 minute ago, JDBSTR said:

That is also the only thing I could also think of

I always wondered what card the wish scammers where copying (Assuming its legit)

If it works in a computer see what it shows up as... 

GpuZ would tell you exact specs

[wONKEyeYEs]

12 minutes ago, JDBSTR said:

"GTX650"

Real one doesn't have a d-sub.

[flibberdipper]

19 minutes ago, Ashley MLP Fangirl said:

the specs on the sticker are all correct for a GTX 650...

You can uh... Print stickers.

[Skiiwee29]

6 minutes ago, flibberdipper said:

You can uh... Print stickers.

 

17 minutes ago, wONKEyeYEs said:

Real one doesn't have a d-sub.

Not uncommon for pre-built OEMs like Dell or HP to include older connectors on there cards such as the VGA. 

[Suki-chan]

If it was a truly fake GPU, It wouldn't work whatsoever. But the GDDR5 claim is sus for a GTX650.

[WaggishOhio383]

4 minutes ago, Suki-chan said:

If it was a truly fake GPU, It wouldn't work whatsoever

That's not how a fake GPU works... A fake GPU means a GPU that says it's one thing, but is actually a much worse cheapo card disguised to "look like" whatever it's being sold as. It will still work, it just won't perform near as well as the card you were supposed to get.

[Pixelfie]

Try a benchmark and see if the performance is simular to a real 650

[Radium_Angel]

6 minutes ago, Suki-chan said:

If it was a truly fake GPU, It wouldn't work whatsoever.

Not entirely correct. It'll boot up, and install basic drivers, and maybe even the "proper" driverset (depending on the level of fakery) but any attempts to push it will result in very bad artifacting as the card runs out of memory long before the drivers thinks it should.

[Suki-chan]

Just now, WaggishOhio383 said:

That's not how a fake GPU works... A fake GPU means a GPU that says it's one thing, but is actually a much worse cheapo card disguised to "look like" whatever it's being sold as. It will still work, it just won't perform near as well as the card you were supposed to get.

I know that, but 'counterfeit' would be a more accurate term. Either way, it's unlikely to be an actual GTX650.

[flibberdipper]

10 minutes ago, Skiiwee29 said:

 

Not uncommon for pre-built OEMs like Dell or HP to include older connectors on there cards such as the VGA. 

Two problems with that theory:

1. This card looks like every phoney card based around old 400-series midrange cards.

2. OEM cards pretty much look nothing like this one.

[AMD A10-9600P]

My money is on it actually being a GTS 450

[Kilrah]

Would also vote for OEM card from a prebuilt. 

[flibberdipper]

32 minutes ago, Kilrah said:

Would also vote for OEM card from a prebuilt. 

mmmmmm really doubting that. OEM cards nearly always looked like this:

 

And now let's compare that to a suspiciously similar "Gigabyte" card on eBay. I'm pretty damn sure Gigabyte never made a card with this cooler, and I know they wouldn't have done it using the logo which essentially died in 2006.

 

https://www.ebay.com/itm/203456980725?epid=141772065&hash=item2f5efb26f5:g:7f0AAOSwFghgoy~9

 

And here's a few more suspiciously similar GTX 650's just to hammer the point home.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/384105064216?hash=item596e722718:g:WdcAAOSwSCFgfdxA

https://www.ebay.com/itm/402359042770?hash=item5dae77c2d2:g:GCIAAOSwRsJfMzQK

 

EDIT: Just for funsies I looked up the model number in the "Gigabyte" listing, and big surprise it actually comes back to a real card which is completely different that Gigabyte actually made! https://www.gigabyte.com/Graphics-Card/GV-N650OC-1GI-rev-10-20

[PorkishPig]

The GTX 650 seems like a pretty dumb card to fake. The PCB looks a lot like the Gainward GTX 650 with a OEM Gigabyte/Zotac cooler.

[AndreiArgeanu]

1 hour ago, wONKEyeYEs said:

Real one doesn't have a d-sub.

50 minutes ago, Skiiwee29 said:

Not uncommon for pre-built OEMs like Dell or HP to include older connectors on there cards such as the VGA. 

Many cards, including non-oem ones do actually have it. For example all Asus GTX 650's have a VGA port. If anything, looking at techpowerup, most GTX 650's had a VGA. And I mean, why would it not? This card was released back in 2012 after all.

 

[AndreiArgeanu]

It definitely isn't an 'official card', it could just be a gtx 650 that was meant to be sold as something else, or it could just be an even weaker card under. If you want to find out you can take the cooler out and look at IHS and see what graphics chip it has assuming whoever put this card together didn't sand the writing off, or you can just put it in a PC and boot up GPUZ