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Tim Drake
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I have a scam card sitting in my house right now (it said it was a 750 TI but it has shitty fans on it and I think its BIOS edited to say 750 TI when its probably something like an 8800.

Should I test it in my system anyway or might it blow up my system?

I got it off a chinese/Japanese eBay store.

 

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How do you know it's fake? I wouldn't risk anything, although I've never heard of fake cards blowing up a computer.

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You should report it.

It was a long ass time ago and they have since been taken down.

I still have the product tho

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You should report it.

report it to who

the police? lol

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How do you know it's fake? I wouldn't risk anything, although I've never heard of fake cards blowing up a computer.

Its specs were different to the 750 TI with fans never seen before on any sub vendor card and it was £20 when the 750 TI was like £130 (I was young and stupid)

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(I was young and stupid)

LOL :P

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Its specs were different to the 750 TI with fans never seen before on any sub vendor card and it was £20 when the 750 TI was like £130 (I was young and stupid)

Try it out the worst that can happen is your PC going boom. You really have the risk with any card. (it's just heightened a hundred-fold)

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love how theres an ATI branding on the Driver disk aswell :D could be anything. just bench it and see what you can compare it too.

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ummm... the sticker on the back says 650ti

 

 

It says 650ti on the sticker haha :P

I know I found that out after aha

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