Please help me identify this fake GTX 1050 Ti

Carbon · Jan 18, 2019

Please help me identify this fake GTX 1050 Ti. Fortunately I received my money back, but would like to load the proper BIOS to see if its usable. Thanks...
The GPU is easily identifiable as a GF116, it has eight Samsung K4G10325FE-HC04 memory chips (4 on the front and 4 on the back.) The card was marketed as GTX1050ti 4GB 128 Bit.

Thanks

eidairaman1 · Jan 18, 2019

Hmm 8 ram chips

cdawall · Jan 18, 2019

https://www.techpowerup.com/gpu-specs/geforce-gts-450-rev-2.c595

eidairaman1 · Jan 18, 2019

cdawall said:
https://www.techpowerup.com/gpu-specs/geforce-gts-450-rev-2.c595

Yup i agree. Was giving link here too.

https://www.techpowerup.com/gpu-specs/?mfgr=NVIDIA&gpu=GF116&sort=name

Carbon · Jan 18, 2019

Thanks and if it relevant the board has One DVI, one, VGA and one HDMI

eidairaman1 · Jan 18, 2019

Carbon said:
Thanks and if it relevant the board has One DVI, one, VGA and one HDMI

With the ram chips being 8, typically 1024

MrGenius · Jan 18, 2019

One of these with 1GB of GDDR5 VRAM rated for 1250MHz.

Carbon · Jan 18, 2019

Thanks... I was thinking it’s 2Gb, since the ram chips are 1Gb with 32 bit structure according to the Samsung data sheet and with 8 chips in a 128 bit arrangement it might be a total of 2Gb?

eidairaman1 · Jan 18, 2019

Carbon said:
Thanks... I was thinking it’s 2Gb, since the ram chips are 1Gb with 32 bit structure according to the Samsung data sheet and with 8 chips in a 128 bit arrangement it might be a total of 2Gb?

Not with a GF 116

Carbon · Jan 19, 2019

So I decided to use the dos version of nvflash. I made a DOS bootable USB with that version of nvflash on it. I figured I would try to backup the fake BIOS from the Fake card first. However, I says no Nvidia card found. I exchanged that fake card for a known good XFX GT610, without changing my process, that is, did every step the same, with that card I can read the Eprom etc. Any ideas why I get no Nvidia card on the fake GTX1050?

Thanks...

ArbitraryAffection · Jan 19, 2019

you're looking at the spiritual silicon ancestor of the RTX 2070.

IceScreamer · Jan 19, 2019

Carbon said:
So I decided to use the dos version of nvflash. I made a DOS bootable USB with that version of nvflash on it. I figured I would try to backup the fake BIOS from the Fake card first. However, I says no Nvidia card found. I exchanged that fake card for a known good XFX GT610, without changing my process, that is, did every step the same, with that card I can read the Eprom etc. Any ideas why I get no Nvidia card on the fake GTX1050?

Thanks...

This video explains how to flash the correct BIOS. It seems you won't be able to do so with NVflash.

MrGenius · Jan 19, 2019

Carbon said:
Thanks... I was thinking it’s 2Gb, since the ram chips are 1Gb with 32 bit structure according to the Samsung data sheet and with 8 chips in a 128 bit arrangement it might be a total of 2Gb?

1Gb(Gigabit) = .125GB(Gigabyte)
.125GB(Gigabyte) x 8 = 1GB(Gigabyte)

Carbon · Jan 21, 2019

Thank you all for your help! Its always fun to learn something new!

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Please help me identify this fake GTX 1050 Ti

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