Chinese Graphics Cards?

[Lazycat619]

I was wandering through Ebay when I stumbled across this listing for a so called customized version of a GTX 1050/ 750Ti/ 970/ 960 HD7670. Of course the prices were reduced and it said that "This is a customized version, not original. The pursuit is the cost performance. Although the interface and performance have changed, it can meet most of the usage requirements in reality". Has any seen these before or had any experience with them? See attachment.

Thanks

[AskTJ]

They are fake cards. They grab generic coolers and place them on very old 550Ti's. Do not buy them.

[Jurrunio]

Fake. They copied Galaxy's shroud design and put them on crap cards, then market them as much better cards.

[Droidbot]

They're Fermi GPUs (GTS450 Rev2, or GTX550TI) but with the BIOS hacked to show as different cards with larger amounts of VRAM.

 

If you want a LEGITIMATE chinese GPU, go to Aliexpress and get a GTX 750. They're all Chinese internet cafe pulls, legit cards from REAL OEMs.

[xmx1024]

 

 

Here you go.

[Wh0_Am_1]

20 minutes ago, Droidbot said:

They're Fermi GPUs (GTS450 Rev2, or GTX550TI) but with the BIOS hacked to show as different cards with larger amounts of VRAM.

 

If you want a LEGITIMATE chinese GPU, go to Aliexpress and get a GTX 750. They're all Chinese internet cafe pulls, legit cards from REAL OEMs.

....Well they aren't hacked just flashed, there is a big difference, they got a legitimate BIOS and just installed it on these older cards, and man is it a pain in the neck to fix them...

[Stefan Payne]

37 minutes ago, 999moon9999 said:

I was wandering through Ebay when I stumbled across this listing for a so called customized version of a GTX 1050/ 750Ti/ 970/ 960 HD7670. Of course the prices were reduced and it said that "This is a customized version, not original. The pursuit is the cost performance. Although the interface and performance have changed, it can meet most of the usage requirements in reality". Has any seen these before or had any experience with them? See attachment.

Those are relabeled, reused Fermi Cards.

Seems like nVidia had some from those somewhere, now the Chinese are selling those cards under various names that have nothing to do with the original chip.

[Droidbot]

4 minutes ago, Wh0_Am_1 said:

....Well they aren't hacked just flashed, there is a big difference, they got a legitimate BIOS and just installed it on these older cards, and man is it a pain in the neck to fix them...

No.

 

The BIOS is just edited - they changed the PCI device ID, OEM ID, and identification to change what the card identifies as, as well as disabling NVFlash so the card cannot be changed to any other type unless you flash the vBIOS with a clip and an SPI flasher. Since this is all the drivers have to identify off, they install the driver for the card that it is pretending to be.

 

If it was a legitimate BIOS, it would show up with that OEMs BIOS.

 

[AskTJ]

2 hours ago, xmx1024 said:

 

 

Here you go.

That is completely different from the eBay cards.

[Official_BlazeKing]

5 hours ago, 999moon9999 said:

I was wandering through Ebay when I stumbled across this listing for a so called customized version of a GTX 1050/ 750Ti/ 970/ 960 HD7670. Of course the prices were reduced and it said that "This is a customized version, not original. The pursuit is the cost performance. Although the interface and performance have changed, it can meet most of the usage requirements in reality". Has any seen these before or had any experience with them? See attachment.

Thanks

There are a couple of legit Chinese brands. But, the card pictured is a scam waiting for a mark.

If they can't or don't want to say what the brand is, that's the first red flag. Why is it a red flag? Because they most likely didn't take any pictures of the other side of the card that shows the underside of the board which usually has other identifying numbers that you could look up; the 2nd red flag. The "stock" photos are another red flag.