Ebay GPUs, whats the story behind these?

[suchamoneypit]

example: https://www.ebay.com/itm/For-NVIDIA-GeForce-GTX970-GDDR5-192Bit-PCI-Express-Video-Graphics-Card-1GB-HDMI/202151553970?_trkparms=aid%3D555018%26algo%3DPL.SIM%26ao%3D2%26asc%3D47300%26meid%3D188961609da44b198ce62c90cb39582b%26pid%3D100005%26rk%3D1%26rkt%3D6%26mehot%3Dpp%26sd%3D202182675154%26itm%3D202151553970&_trksid=p2047675.c100005.m1851

 

How does this cards performance compare to a proper 970? Can it be used for mining? Whats the story behind these "stripped down" GPUs with low memory? Stuff like this for every main gpu out there for nvidia at least.

[LienusLateTips]

These are fake ones, usually a 450 or 550 Ti flashed

[iamdarkyoshi]

I've got a thread on these that I need to update.

 

 

 

I do have the fake 970 on hand as we speak. It hasn't been tested though

[Oshino Shinobu]

They're basically just BS. Some cheapo card that's been flashed to display as a different card and maybe some packaging. Or sometimes just a completely different card that doesn't even try to be a different card. 

 

It appears that particular card is from the future as well, as it repeatedly states that it uses DDR5 RAM. 

 

The description as a whole is fantastic:

 

"*Super low consumption and calorific value."

 

"Warm Tips:This item is not the original one"

 

"*Color: As pictures show"

"Note: The real color of the item may be slightly different from the pictures shown on website"

[Gamerguy207]

3 minutes ago, JDE said:

These are fake ones, usually a 450 or 550 Ti flashed

Indeed totally fake I've seen a 1080 scamer selling it for 40$  I know it's tempting to think you could get lucky but it's nothing but a filthy scam

[suchamoneypit]

1 minute ago, iamdarkyoshi said:

I've got a thread on these that I need to update.

 

 

 

I do have the fake 970 on hand as we speak. It hasn't been tested though

When you get a chance would you be able to download minergate and tell me what it mines (H/s) at mining Monero ? Extremely curious.

[iamdarkyoshi]

2 minutes ago, suchamoneypit said:

When you get a chance would you be able to download minergate and tell me what it mines (H/s) at mining Monero ? Extremely curious.

I'm sure it'll be at best a 550Ti's performance.

 

They don't have 970 dies, they have dies from 550Tis and stuff, and the memory is almost always faked. You're lucky to get 1GB on a "4GB" card

[LTTfanfromSweden]

13 minutes ago, Oshino Shinobu said:

They're basically just BS. Some cheapo card that's been flashed to display as a different card and maybe some packaging. Or sometimes just a completely different card that doesn't even try to be a different card. 

 

It appears that particular card is from the future as well, as it repeatedly states that it uses DDR5 RAM. 

 

The description as a whole is fantastic:

 

"*Super low consumption and calorific value."

 

"Warm Tips:This item is not the original one"

 

"*Color: As pictures show"

"Note: The real color of the item may be slightly different from the pictures shown on website"

you can tell they mean GDDR5 not DDR5, the title says GDDR5

[STRMfrmXMN]

Lower-end card (usually very old but power efficient enough to pass as a newer card) with a BIOS hack to make it appear as a GTX 970 in GPUZ and applications like that.

[GDRRiley]

12 minutes ago, Gamerguy207 said:

Indeed totally fake I've seen a 1080 scamer selling it for 40$  I know it's tempting to think you could get lucky but it's nothing but a filthy scam

abuse ebays return police and just get a free one if your interested and then flash the card back to what is suppose to be. 

[Oshino Shinobu]

1 minute ago, LTTfanfromSweden said:

you can tell they mean GDDR5 not DDR5, the title says GRRR5

Was it not clear that that was a joke? 

 

Could you tell me what they mean when they say "Super low consumption and calorific value."?

[STRMfrmXMN]

1 minute ago, Oshino Shinobu said:

Was it not clear that that was a joke? 

 

Could you tell me what they mean when they say "Super low consumption and calorific value."?

I dunno, this new generation of VRAM called GRRRRRRRRAM sounds pretty aggressive!

[Oshino Shinobu]

Just now, STRMfrmXMN said:

I dunno, this new generation of VRAM called GRRRRRRRRAM sounds pretty aggressive!

Maybe it just weighs 5 grams? 

[LTTfanfromSweden]

Just now, Oshino Shinobu said:

Was it not clear that that was a joke? 

 

Could you tell me what they mean when they say "Super low consumption and calorific value."?

no it makes you appear as uneducated as there is no tone of voice online. its from china so you have to expect google translate or a variant of it was used for all the text you see on the post. 

 

they are trying to say that it has low power consumption by that line. and the calorific value part is more then likely a translation error saying something that it has good power consumption again. you know how the chinese sellers are. 

  

 

[Oshino Shinobu]

Just now, LTTfanfromSweden said:

no it makes you appear as uneducated as there is no tone of voice online. its from china so you have to expect google translate or a variant of it was used for all the text you see on the post. 

 

they are trying to say that it has low power consumption by that line. and the calorific value part is more then likely a translation error saying something that it has good power consumption again. you know how the chinese sellers are. 

  

 

Thank you for clearing that up. I'm both relived and disappointed to find out this graphics card is, in fact, not from the future as I had thought in my first post. 

[Gamerguy207]

We need a RBG ltt theme

 

(Random thought)

[LTTfanfromSweden]

11 minutes ago, Oshino Shinobu said:

Thank you for clearing that up. I'm both relived and disappointed to find out this graphics card is, in fact, not from the future as I had thought in my first post. 

nothing is from the future. 

[STRMfrmXMN]

28 minutes ago, Oshino Shinobu said:

Maybe it just weighs 5 grams? 

I think this link is relevant.

 

[Max_Settings]

He’s sold 68 WTF?

[Max_Settings]

And he has amazing feedback

[MikeSK]

Wishful thinking:

The bitcoin mining industry gets hoodwinked by this GPU.  After preordering 10s of thousands of them, their capital is tied up and the rest of the GPU market prices fall to MRSP.   Gamers can have their cake and eat it to.
 

[MikeSK]

I wonder if we can get Amazon to try to source a highly energy efficient and cheap bit coin mining card.
Amazon would not only profit from this, they would create a new custom build pc gamer renaissance.  Until prices drop, I can not afford to build. 

[suchamoneypit]

1 hour ago, GDRRiley said:

abuse ebays return police and just get a free one if your interested and then flash the card back to what is suppose to be. 

It's not abuse of the return policy if the seller is intentionally lying and sell fake products.

[suchamoneypit]

1 minute ago, MikeSK said:

I wonder if we can get Amazon to try to source a highly energy efficient and cheap bit coin mining card.
Amazon would not only profit from this, they would create a new custom build pc gamer renaissance.  Until prices drop, I can not afford to build. 

I've thought about why a company like NVIDIA or AMD wouldn't make specialized chips, then keep them to themselves.

 

Complete monopoly and dominance over every other miner in existence, giving complete control of all crypto bringing in insane profits. Or people would see the corruptness in it and crypto value would drop.

[MikeSK]

10 minutes ago, suchamoneypit said:

corruptness in it and crypto value would drop.

Crypto currencies fluctuates by the second.  In that second, it has a value between 0 to infinity.  You have a better chance with Schrödinger's cat.  "Schrödinger's cat is a thought experiment, sometimes described as a paradox, ".. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schrödinger's_cat).