New GTX960 for £39?

[mmCharles]

http://www.wish.com/c/5a042490d20e93307646f1d3

 

Listing description:

Quote

What the manufacturer says about it:

Twin Frozr V - Cooler, Quieter, Better GAMING

With every new generation of GPUs comes more performance. With every new generation of MSI Twin Frozr we give you less noise and heat!. We ve listened to all your requests and the new Twin Frozr V is smaller, features stronger fans, generates less noise, keeps your graphics card and its components cooler and matches perfectly with your MSI GAMING motherboard including some funky LED lightning. We ve spent 18 months on the development of the Twin Frozr V, including field testing in gaming cafés to ensure the cards have the quality and stability to give you the FPS you need.

4GB 128-Bit GDDR5

Core Clock 1241 MHz (OC Mode) 1216 MHz (Gaming Mode) 1127 MHz (Silent Mode)

Boost Clock 1304 MHz (OC Mode) 1279 MHz (Gaming Mode) 1178 MHz (Silent Mode)

1 x Dual-link DVI-I 1 x HDMI 2.0 3 x DisplayPort 1.2

PCI Express 3.0 x16

 

I’ve been noticing a lot of these listings floating around Chinese marketplaces such as Wish. I’m curious to know if these are legit, I highly doubt it but if they are I’m sure a lot of people could benefit from these. 

[porina]

I just had a look on ebay for UK used price comparison, and there seems to be a seller from China doing them around £40 too, sometimes less. I don't know anything about Wish, but at least if you go through ebay you have some protection if you want to take a gamble on this.

 

Were they good for mining previously? It's the only reason I could speculate. Listings say new, but who knows their history.

[Jurrunio]

Fake. Seriously not even a logo anywhere? Who knows what card can that be? Could be a cooler swap onto a much smaller (and weaker) card.

 

In the Chinese market I have seen multiple times where cheap cards are being modded to look like more expensive ones, such as GTS 450s being BIOS modded to be a GTX 960 (still with 1GB vRAM though) and HD5970 to 290x. Some even use aftermarket coolers from for example, Arctic, to prevent identification from the cooler on old cards from popular brands.

[porina]

Still looking on ebay, I found one seller showing as in UK selling the same card (based on pics) for £42. However the delivery time is estimated at 2 weeks, so I wonder if they're just a UK front for stock shipped in from far east anyway.

[mmCharles]

12 minutes ago, porina said:

I just had a look on ebay for UK used price comparison, and there seems to be a seller from China doing them around £40 too, sometimes less. I don't know anything about Wish, but at least if you go through ebay you have some protection if you want to take a gamble on this.

 

Were they good for mining previously? It's the only reason I could speculate. Listings say new, but who knows their history.

 

Wish is just a portal to Chinese manufacturers, I guess the closest comparison would be AliExpress. 

 

I have to admit, they did catch my attention with an immediate thought on building a mining PC but they have to be fakes. There’s absolutely no way these things have the same power as a genuine card from a reputable company. 

 

I wonder if Linus would make a video on this... It’s an interesting topic I think. 

 

 

[Zmax]

4 minutes ago, mmCharles said:

 

Wish is just a portal to Chinese manufacturers, I guess the closest comparison would be AliExpress. 

 

I have to admit, they did catch my attention with an immediate thought on building a mining PC but they have to be fakes. There’s absolutely no way these things have the same power as a genuine card from a reputable company. 

 

I wonder if Linus would make a video on this... It’s an interesting topic I think. 

 

 

Fake cards and bad stuff. Yep good subject for a vid

[porina]

Don't have time to do so right now, but it should be possible to identify other buyers of those cards based on completed sales on ebay. If sufficient time has passed for them to have received the cards, check out what the feedback is.

[mmCharles]

1 minute ago, CUDA_Cores said:

Something to me screams scam about this.

Either scam or misleading advertising for sure. 

[porina]

https://wccftech.com/dont-get-scammed-50-gtx-960/

 

Above link claims they're bios hacked GTS 450.