Fake or Real? GTX 1050 BINGO :)

faceman123 · 24 Feb 2019 at 22:39

Hey OCUK detectives,

so i took a punt on a gtx 1050 for £20 ( yes inb4 you all lol and say chinese fake)

now here are a couple of pictures - the guy claimed to have pulled it from a HP computer. is this geniune? not to fussed as going in a htpc, just curios.

here are pics he sent me - the first pic is of GPUZ i took

Gerard · 24 Feb 2019 at 23:11

That's one comedy value heatsink\fan combo. Possibly real, some random Asian brand?

CuriousTomCat · 24 Feb 2019 at 23:13

Well the GPU-Z spec is identical to a real GTX 1050. I looked up the HP device ID and found an actual GTX 1050 identical to your picture (even has the same cheap heatsink/fan) selling for €142.00

opethdisciple · 24 Feb 2019 at 23:19

It's £20. So not a big gamble really.

ver01@ · 25 Feb 2019 at 06:38

Good one if it works and you can always get a fanless cooler. Obviously with 2GB you wont be able to do much.

Distracted · 25 Feb 2019 at 07:01

HOUSE!

Armageus · 25 Feb 2019 at 07:58

Yep it's a genuine hp card, and at £20 an absolute bargain

faceman123 · 25 Feb 2019 at 09:27

Armageus said:
Yep it's a genuine hp card, and at £20 an absolute bargain

thanks, the guy was having a hard time selling it ( so many people understandably thought it was a Chinese fake, performance is great, I can't help but think though this is the worst Aesthetically looking pascal card ever!

reflux · 25 Feb 2019 at 09:53

Looks like a 9600GT from back in the day!

Chuffed it's actually worth having

snips86x · 25 Feb 2019 at 10:00

Didn't someone else here do the same? Buy a card that they thought wasn't what it actually was, something like a 1050 or something.

Danny75 · 25 Feb 2019 at 11:35

Bargain. Good move by HP to go with Chinese fakes.

/jk

LoadsaMoney · 25 Feb 2019 at 12:26

Scougar · 25 Feb 2019 at 14:47

So.... how does it perform?

Psycho Sonny · 25 Feb 2019 at 15:20

the 1050 is actually a very good card for games like CS:GO, etc. playing at 1080p it will play a lot of games at low settings and cs:go on the highest settings.

opethdisciple · 25 Feb 2019 at 16:05

What's it's RT performance?

Distracted · 25 Feb 2019 at 17:08

opethdisciple said:
What's it's RT performance?

In most games it has identical rt performance to a 2080ti. There are a few exceptions where the 2080ti pulls ahead by a huge amount but for the most part there's no difference between them when it comes to ray tracing.

faceman123 · 25 Feb 2019 at 18:11

Distracted said:
In most games it has identical rt performance to a 2080ti. There are a few exceptions where the 2080ti pulls ahead by a huge amount but for the most part there's no difference between them when it comes to ray tracing.

Actually I've over locked mines and it'll keep up with 2080ti sli, I've also managed solid 120fps at 4k

must be the heatsink

faceman123 · 25 Feb 2019 at 18:13

Danny75 said:
Bargain. Good move by HP to go with Chinese fakes.

/jk

Hp? The guy said Huawei plankard always wondered what it stood for

Distracted · 25 Feb 2019 at 19:28

faceman123 said:
Actually I've over locked mines and it'll keep up with 2080ti sli, I've also managed solid 120fps at 4k must be the heatsink

Compared to multiple 2080ti in sli, ray tracing performance for most games will be identical. :cool:

opethdisciple · 25 Feb 2019 at 23:56

Distracted said:
In most games it has identical rt performance to a 2080ti. There are a few exceptions where the 2080ti pulls ahead by a huge amount but for the most part there's no difference between them when it comes to ray tracing.

In other words, 'It just works'.