Bought a < £60 1050ti from China. Let's see what it's all about.

jigger · 27 May 2018 at 20:33

Set paypal on them.

Telecaster · 27 May 2018 at 21:07

CREATIVE!11 said:
Lmao op. You dun goof'd.

Hardly, I think he knows enough to have an educated guess that it was unlikely to be legit. Bit of fun though.

Vince · 27 May 2018 at 22:13

CREATIVE!11 said:
Lmao op. You dun goof'd.

Telecaster said:
Hardly, I think he knows enough to have an educated guess that it was unlikely to be legit. Bit of fun though.

copycatuk said:
But does it run Crysis ?

I don't know what you mean it's a beast clearly. I'm keeping it to find out if it can run crysis. I will let you all know in good time.

CREATIVE!11 · 27 May 2018 at 22:46

Telecaster said:
Hardly, I think he knows enough to have an educated guess that it was unlikely to be legit. Bit of fun though.

I know, i'm joking around. This thread has been making me laugh.

HazardO · 30 May 2018 at 13:02

9800gt?

Minstadave · 30 May 2018 at 13:12

HazardO said:
9800gt?

Wrong memory bus size.

Armageus · 30 May 2018 at 13:25

550ti with reduced TMU's and ROPs (192/24/12 instead of 192/32/24), and 128MB ram chips * 6 (instead of the 6x256MB for the 1.5Gb model, or 4x128MB+2*256MB for the 1Gb model)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Nvidia_graphics_processing_units#GeForce_500_series

Vince · 30 May 2018 at 13:29

Armageus said:
550ti with reduced TMU's and ROPs (192/24/12 instead of 192/32/24), and 128MB ram chips * 6 (instead of the 6x256MB for the 1.5Gb model, or 4x128MB+2*256MB for the 1Gb model)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Nvidia_graphics_processing_units#GeForce_500_series

That's the beast.

still undecided what to do with it, clearly it's all powerful so is wasted in most applications.

TheVoice · 30 May 2018 at 13:45

Sasahara said:
It could well be a 1050ti, these ropey looking cards are made to be sold directly to internet cafe/gaming centres in the far east rather than home users.

The 5Gb 1060 is another example.

Slight difference in that those are just cheaply-made cards sold a bit cheaper than the branded versions, whereas this was (even before testing) clearly not what it was advertised to be at all and sold for about two-fifths of the price of a normal one.

ExoMale · 30 May 2018 at 15:10

these are the sort of things you can buy from 'Wish' lol.

if thats a 550ti, how would it say 1050ti in gpu-z?

Armageus · 30 May 2018 at 15:17

ExoMale said:
if thats a 550ti, how would it say 1050ti in gpu-z?

Because you can edit the bios string to read what you like

Randomface74 · 30 May 2018 at 15:17

Modified firmware?

AthlonXP1800 · 30 May 2018 at 17:23

Armageus said:
550ti with reduced TMU's and ROPs (192/24/12 instead of 192/32/24), and 128MB ram chips * 6 (instead of the 6x256MB for the 1.5Gb model, or 4x128MB+2*256MB for the 1Gb model)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Nvidia_graphics_processing_units#GeForce_500_series

Vince said:
well i took it apart:

The build quality of this card is 'outstanding'

Yes that is Geforce GTX 550 Ti chip with exactly matched resistors layout.

https://www.techpowerup.com/gpudb/274/geforce-gtx-550-ti

Vince · 30 May 2018 at 21:21

Boo... I have been in contact with the vendor and not only have they issued a full refund I now also have a graphics card I never really needed that I bought for no other reason than I was bored. On top of this the item is no longer available for sale so I guess they have pulled it after I pointed out that they probably should. Perhaps I may even have done some people a favour here as that is now one less place you can buy a fake NV card from.

Armageus · 30 May 2018 at 21:23

Nice result

How many h/s though

Vince · 30 May 2018 at 21:26

Armageus said:
Nice result

How many h/s though

I didn't even test it. Kinda feel like I should now

Perhaps I'll put it in the spare mining rig I am starting to build just for the lol's.

Habakkuk · 30 May 2018 at 21:37

I'm really liking the white perimeter circle on the PCB - I assume that's the heatsink guide.

If you don't want to use it for mining, mount it on the wall

Boycey0211 · 31 May 2018 at 02:54

Vince said:
I didn't even test it. Kinda feel like I should now Perhaps I'll put it in the spare mining rig I am starting to build just for the lol's.

As much as I'm a moaner about mining ruining gfx card sales recently, building a mining rig out of dodgy chinese parts after a refund seems like a nice idea. Turning a profit on other people lies.

Provided it doesnt burn down your house that is :/

Vince · 31 May 2018 at 07:34

Boycey0211 said:
As much as I'm a moaner about mining ruining gfx card sales recently, building a mining rig out of dodgy chinese parts after a refund seems like a nice idea. Turning a profit on other people lies.

Provided it doesnt burn down your house that is :/

The premise is nice only you know that this will not be a very good mining card. It will use plenty of power while not really delivering much in the way of performance. Was fun to play with but I suspect not much other use.

Armageus · 31 May 2018 at 08:15

Vince said:
The premise is nice only you know that this will not be a very good mining card. It will use plenty of power while not really delivering much in the way of performance. Was fun to play with but I suspect not much other use.

140H/s cryptonight for a "real" 550 from what I can find