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

MagicBoy · 31 May 2018 at 10:41

Vince said:
That's the beast. still undecided what to do with it, clearly it's all powerful so is wasted in most applications.

Main problem is they've bodged the card identity and it's got less vRAM than it claims it supports. Try and game on it and you'll get issues.

If it can be flashed back to a 550Ti then it should be usable, but I suspect you'll need a chip programmer for that as nvflash will still think it's a 1050Ti...

Vince · 31 May 2018 at 12:11

MagicBoy said:
Main problem is they've bodged the card identity and it's got less vRAM than it claims it supports. Try and game on it and you'll get issues.

If it can be flashed back to a 550Ti then it should be usable, but I suspect you'll need a chip programmer for that as nvflash will still think it's a 1050Ti...

Nah it'll be fine... They have only effectively updated label fields. Given that the device ID is still for a 550ti you should be able to still use it without any sketchy issues. If I get time over the next few days ill answer the question on everybody's mind. Can it play Crisis?

MagicBoy · 31 May 2018 at 12:50

That sounds hopeful then. Can't remember exactly where, but I've seen a YouTube video on one of the tech channels where a fake 960 card that was in reality a 450 had the device IDs faked as well, and would randomly fall over when the VRAM filled up.

Vince · 31 May 2018 at 13:37

MagicBoy said:
That sounds hopeful then. Can't remember exactly where, but I've seen a YouTube video on one of the tech channels where a fake 960 card that was in reality a 450 had the device IDs faked as well, and would randomly fall over when the VRAM filled up.

Good to know, at least I know now that if it does do wierd stuff, that it can be flashed back to what it is

willhub · 31 May 2018 at 15:02

I might get a fake GTX1080 to try out.

gailjon · 31 May 2018 at 15:29

willhub said:
I might get a fake GTX1080 to try out.

Trouble is even the fake ones are expensive

Vince · 31 May 2018 at 16:11

willhub said:
I might get a fake GTX1080 to try out.

What you think, should I buy one? Just need to find one...

Nope drawing a blank here all the places I was finding fake cards seem to be gone

LuckyBenski · 31 May 2018 at 18:01

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

Do you mean an RX 550? I don't believe there was ever a GTX 550, just the 550Ti

willhub · 31 May 2018 at 18:51

Vince said:
What you think, should I buy one? Just need to find one...

Nope drawing a blank here all the places I was finding fake cards seem to be gone

gailjon said:
Trouble is even the fake ones are expensive

Maybe 1070 fake? It'd be interesting might still be a powerful card for cheap if can get one reasonably prices.

Armageus · 31 May 2018 at 19:26

LuckyBenski said:
Do you mean an RX 550? I don't believe there was ever a GTX 550, just the 550Ti

I meant 550ti but real.in the sense of all tmus/rops

Vince · 31 May 2018 at 20:33

Armageus said:
I meant 550ti but real.in the sense of all tmus/rops

I'll see what this bad boy does, I bet its like 100h/s for all the power. Still though, I am quite impressed, I appear to have successfully scammed the scammer without even intentionally meaning to

I simply sent them a fairly long email describing what it actually was and the refund appears to be showing as pending on my credit card already and the product is no longer for sale. Have I found the only non scamming scammer out there?

Rroff · 31 May 2018 at 20:38

Vince said:
Have I found the only non scamming scammer out there?

It is probably worth it to them to simply refund you and relist the items under another seller name and avoid any comeback from fighting the odd person who brings them up on it.

Habakkuk · 1 Jun 2018 at 08:16

Rroff said:
It is probably worth it to them to simply refund you and relist the items under another seller name and avoid any comeback from fighting the odd person who brings them up on it.

The Buyer: "This graphics card is a fake!"

The Seller:

When you've complained to them, you've already had them spend more time and effort than they wanted selling this - it's easier for them to cut losses & run.

varkanoid · 1 Jun 2018 at 13:48

Vince said:
What you think, should I buy one? Just need to find one...

Nope drawing a blank here all the places I was finding fake cards seem to be gone

not looking hard enough, go to a certain site and change item location to worldwide............

Vince · 1 Jun 2018 at 14:02

varkanoid said:
not looking hard enough, go to a certain site and change item location to worldwide............

Problem is I would rather buy from somewhere that isn't an auction site. Somewhere where I can throw it on a credit card and roll the dice

varkanoid · 1 Jun 2018 at 16:55

Vince said:
Problem is I would rather buy from somewhere that isn't an auction site. Somewhere where I can throw it on a credit card and roll the dice

just been looking on there and the pictures of the 960, 780ti, 1050ti and 1050 are all the same picture showing same XHVGA design of card with exact same outputs!

Once you know what you are looking for its very easy to spot.

They are all over the rainforest over the Atlantic too!

This cracked me up

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.

Vince · 1 Jun 2018 at 21:11

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.

What does this even mean? It can meet most usage requirements in reality? for who? doing what?

That's one of the best disclaimers I have seen. Might as well say, ladies and gents what you are looking at here is not what it says it is.

Marine-RX179 · 2 Jun 2018 at 08:47

Vince said:
What does this even mean? It can meet most usage requirements in reality? for who? doing what? That's one of the best disclaimers I have seen. Might as well say, ladies and gents what you are looking at here is not what it says it is.

That's like saying "Although the appearance and performance have changed, this car will still meet the basic need of taking someone from A to B in reality" lol

AthlonXP1800 · 12 Oct 2018 at 11:15

https://www.techpowerup.com/248487/techpowerup-gpu-z-v2-12-0-released

Latest GPU-Z version 2.12.0 can detect fake GPUs now.

When GPU-Z detected fake GPU it will look like below:

synixx · 12 Oct 2018 at 12:54

That's a really useful feature, scammers beware