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Fake Nvidia GPU’s flogged in Germany

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Fake graphics cards with NVIDIA GPUs are currently available on the German market from many retailers. The box claims that the card is a GeForce GTX 660, but they are nothing but BIOS manipulated old cards from the Fermi generation.

Each "Nvidia GTX660 4096 Bulk" is made up with an ancient GPU which the driver recognizes through a BIOS manipulation as a GeForce GTX 660th. Needless to say the specifications of the graphics card are quite different from a real GeForce GTX 660 graphics card.

It looks like the cards are being widely circulated and might have caught the wholesales selling them on the hop. The cards were being distributed by an outfit called Kosatec to numerous German online stores. Jacob Elektronik has listed the card for 163,80 Euro when there is not a GeForce GTX 660 at that price.

Online there are numerous dealers that sell the fake card.

Nvidia told heise.de it had identified on the GPU serial number of the chip but could not make any further comment.
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http://www.fudzilla.com/home/item/35615-fake-nvidia-gpu’s-flogged-in-germany

Getting ripped off buying an NVidia card whatever next.:eek:
 
Before i opened this thread i was half expecting it to read something along the lines of "China manufacturing cheap knock off Nvidia GPU's"
 
Lol, remember when the first 670 pics were leaked on the net and everyone screamed fake as the msi boxes on show said 'displaly port' in big letters on the box....and it turned out to be a typo by msi :p
 
Yeah I have seen this over on tomshardware, people buying "GTX 660" then complaining of poor performance, looking it up in GPUZ and the specs are totally wrong and ends up being something like a GT 630 or something else equally tragic, but the name shows up as GTX 660.
 
This is actually pretty common in asia, less so in the EU or US.

All it takes is some company buying cards and modifying the bios to say that they're something they're not.

Nvidia cards are more common victims of this because they're the bigger brand and people fall for it easier. But I've seen some AMD/ATi ones as well in the past.
 
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