Fake GPUs Help Guide. Please Stop buying them

Hardcore Games · Jul 31, 2021

I look at the entire card, heat sink and even the bracket

fake pascal cards with VGA are a real giveaway

Caring1 · Aug 1, 2021

SLI fingers are a give away.

qubit · Aug 1, 2021

eidairaman1 said:
All those who go online and buy a1050/ Ti that is non branded, let alone 960 etc or ATI/AMD cards from China are asking for getting a bogus card.

I'm just going to say this, Stop buying them and buy Cards from the AIC/AIB Lists.

AMD/Nvidia
Asus, AsRock, Biostar, Gigabyte, MSI.

AMD
AMD, HIS, PowerColor/TUL, Sapphire, Visiontek, Yeston, XFX.

Nvidia
Nvidia, EVGA, Galaxy/Galax/KFA, Gainward/Palit, Zotac

The best thing to do is send the fake card back for money back as they are pretty much worthless in any games today.

Otherwise use them as a troubleshooting card for a system suspected of not POSTing.

Yup, I'll second this. I see threads about these crap cards on here a lot lately and I just roll my eyes. :rolleyes:

There wouldn't be a market for them if there weren't suckers to buy them. Don't be a sucker and follow eidairaman1's advice instead.

eidairaman1 · Aug 2, 2021

Im not seeing them as much now which is good. I mean they are either 450 gt, 560 with 1 or 2GB ram.

Hardcore Games · Aug 2, 2021

Many fake cards are obsolete Fermi cards repackaged as Maxwell or Pascal to fool unsuspecting persons

eidairaman1 · Aug 2, 2021

Hardcore Games said:
Many fake cards are obsolete Fermi cards repackaged as Maxwell or Pascal to fool unsuspecting persons

Yup gf 116 or 106

Shrek · Aug 2, 2021

Are there any pictures to help people identify fake cards?

DeathtoGnomes · Aug 2, 2021

Andy Shiekh said:
Are there any pictures to help people identify fake cards?

IDK can you take a picture of common sense?

or look up 460/560 GT

Keullo-e · Aug 2, 2021

Caring1 said:
SLI fingers are a give away.

Though there are some fake cards (GTS 450 ones) with no SLI fingers so you can't always count on that either.

Shrek · Aug 2, 2021

DeathtoGnomes said:
IDK can you take a picture of common sense?

eidairaman1 · Aug 3, 2021

Andy Shiekh said:
View attachment 211009

Use a search engine, punch in 1050ti, you will see black heatsink with green or blue sticker, the heatsink is like a Old Galaxy 640...

Too easy to spot a mile away.

Hachi_Roku256563 · Aug 3, 2021

Candor said:
If it's got a VGA port, run away.

unless the card your trying to buy actually has vga

eidairaman1 · Aug 3, 2021

Isaac` said:
unless the card your trying to buy actually has vga

Problem solved

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti Specs

NVIDIA GP107, 1392 MHz, 768 Cores, 48 TMUs, 32 ROPs, 4096 MB GDDR5, 1752 MHz, 128 bit

www.techpowerup.com

Hachi_Roku256563 · Aug 3, 2021

eidairaman1 said:
Problem solved

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti Specs

NVIDIA GP107, 1392 MHz, 768 Cores, 48 TMUs, 32 ROPs, 4096 MB GDDR5, 1752 MHz, 128 bit

www.techpowerup.com

But not all fake cards are 1050s

eidairaman1 · Aug 3, 2021

Isaac` said:
But not all fake cards are 1050s

Most have been here, I have seen some 960s that were fake.

Candor · Aug 21, 2021

These fake cards have been around for years before covid. That's not the cause.

It's just the usual "preying on those who don't want to spend much and are unaware of fakes being a thing".

eidairaman1 · Aug 21, 2021

Candor said:
These fake cards have been around for years before covid. That's not the cause.

It's just the usual "preying on those who don't want to spend much and are unaware of fakes being a thing".

Yup its sad

Candor · Aug 22, 2021

Wow the guy who said these fake cards were caused by covid deleted his post?

Jeez dude. It's okay to be wrong, lol

Mr.Scott · Aug 22, 2021

Candor said:
Jeez dude. It's okay to be wrong, lol

Unless you're Bill Bright.

eidairaman1 · Aug 22, 2021

Mr.Scott said:
Unless you're Bill Bright.

Yea TLNR

AleXXX666 · Aug 22, 2021

eidairaman1 said:
All those who go online and buy a1050/ Ti that is non branded, let alone 960 etc or ATI/AMD cards from China are asking for getting a bogus card.

I'm just going to say this, Stop buying them and buy Cards from the AIC/AIB Lists.

AMD/Nvidia
Asus, AsRock, Biostar, Gigabyte, MSI.

AMD
AMD, HIS, PowerColor/TUL, Sapphire, Visiontek, Yeston, XFX.

Nvidia
Nvidia, EVGA, Galaxy/Galax/KFA, Gainward/Palit, Zotac

The best thing to do is send the fake card back for money back as they are pretty much worthless in any games today.

Otherwise use them as a troubleshooting card for a system suspected of not POSTing.

just random "say hi" from good experience of Veineda GTX 750. not all cars are scam, veineda is ok maker.

eidairaman1 · Aug 22, 2021

AleXXX666 said:
just random "say hi" from good experience of Veineda GTX 750. not all cars are scam, veineda is ok maker.

Ok pull the card apart and see what die is on it along with what memory.

Fyi its fake 1050TIs. I'm talking about or fake 960s, 730s etc

These are fake cards

Even the brand of your card uses the above heatsink, so I wouldn't trust them either

theFOoL · Aug 22, 2021

If a card in 2021 or 2020 has VGA-Port it's Fake...

theFOoL · Aug 22, 2021

Andy Shiekh said:
It is great to have pictures of fake cards; really helps.

Indeed. VGA - Port = on a Card (except on Low Profile ones) in this Age are Fake

eidairaman1 · Aug 22, 2021

Andy Shiekh said:
It is great to have pictures of fake cards; really helps.

A general search of chinese 1050 brings that card up, the sticker could be blue too

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Fake GPUs Help Guide. Please Stop buying them

Hardcore Games

Caring1

qubit

Overclocked quantum bit

eidairaman1

The Exiled Airman

Hardcore Games

eidairaman1

The Exiled Airman

Shrek

DeathtoGnomes

Keullo-e

S.T.A.R.S.

Shrek

eidairaman1

The Exiled Airman

Hachi_Roku256563

eidairaman1

The Exiled Airman

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti Specs

Hachi_Roku256563

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti Specs

eidairaman1

The Exiled Airman

Candor

eidairaman1

The Exiled Airman

Candor

Mr.Scott

eidairaman1

The Exiled Airman

AleXXX666

eidairaman1

The Exiled Airman

theFOoL

theFOoL

eidairaman1

The Exiled Airman

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