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PLEASE NEED HELP WITH GTX960 GD5 V2 FAKE

eledyar

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I bought this graphic on ebay thinking it was legit but it wasn't. It worked correctly with the factory bios (because I wanted it to be legitimate) but I didn't make a backup, this being my only video source, I screwed up. I tried to search for a working bios but only found 2 that worked a bit.(fake bios) but I couldn't find a working one or make it work properly.
The graphics chip is: GF116-400-A1
I think it's a gtx 550ti, it doesn't have a power connector so it's weird.
It has 8xW1032BAG-40-P attached photos, I'm looking for a fake bios that is minimally useful to me:(
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@eidairaman1 can you help this gentleman?

I'll start by saying please clean it, don't like dirty GPU's.:)
 
@Blaeza I'm afraid of screwing up more
I'm not good at speaking english either
i'm peruvian (español taco burrito)
 
go to ebay, report fraud, send it back and get a refund.
 
even if its ligit its almost a 2014 card even low end cell phones are more powerful and support of a card that old if its still around will stop eventaly the 4 gb new cards already are capping memory at 1080p so 2 is well huh its a 720p will be bad a swtich or sereis s would be better as all in on pc for less and better value
 
even if its ligit its almost a 2014 card even low end cell phones are more powerful and support of a card that old if its still around will stop eventaly the 4 gb new cards already are capping memory at 1080p so 2 is well huh its a 720p will be bad a swtich or sereis s would be better as all in on pc for less and better value
Gf 116 is GFermi, much much older, it is not a card from 2014 (GMaxwell) but from like 2010.



Its not a 4g card but a 1 or 2g
 
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In my country we are in a political crisis and it will be the 5th time that I change president in 2 years, the dollar goes up and it is difficult for me to buy another one, that is why I came here for help :(
 
@Blaeza I'm afraid of screwing up more
I'm not good at speaking english either
i'm peruvian (español taco burrito)
Make a claim you were sold a false card

In my country we are in a political crisis and it will be the 5th time that I change president in 2 years, the dollar goes up and it is difficult for me to buy another one, that is why I came here for help :(
We are facing inflation as well and my nation is in political distress and national durress
 
I have an Intel HD Graphics 3000 so I think if I can get this graphics to work it will be profitable.
 
Put your heatsink back on it, get a pic of the pci bracket, and then boot up with it if possible and get a gpu-z screenshot please

I have an Intel HD Graphics 3000 so I think if I can get this graphics to work it will be profitable.
You can play very old games on it, nothing current though.

Put the card in, boot up using the intel graphics, get gpu-z select the gf116 gpu and get a screenshot from gpu-z of that info please

I have an Intel HD Graphics 3000 so I think if I can get this graphics to work it will be profitable.
See above
 
I install this BIOS and finally i install drivers 382.33 and finally works!!!!
I have not tried to use it in games but I send a screenshot of gpu z
 

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I install this BIOS and finally i install drivers 382.33 and finally works!!!!
I have not tried to use it in games but I send a screenshot of gpu z
Let me look at some data

Being a fake 970, let me look at the ram chips closely.

Your bios version is used by many cards.

 
It has 8xW1032BAG-40-P ELPIDA chips, 4 front and 4 back
I got excited for a while, when I play something and I guess it exceeds 1024 mb of ram, the game crashes
 

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Ok your ram is 1Gibibit a piece which is 0.125 GibiBytes ×8 chips= 1GibiByte total

It has 8xW1032BAG-40-P ELPIDA chips, 4 front and 4 back
I got excited for a while, when I play something and I guess it exceeds 1024 mb of ram, the game crashes
Yup because you are out of memory at 4G

Those chips are effectively 4000MHz,(4Gbps) being gddr5 (quad pumped) they are supposed to operate at 1000MHz.
 
I just found that it crashes in all games without exception (EXCEPT MORTALKOMBAT 9)
 

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Your Shaders/ROPS/TMUs were made to appear like a gtx 970 but that causes a crash as well.

I just found that it crashes in all games without exception
See my statements, its a Fermi card made to appear like a maxwell but the hardware just isnt physically there.

Let me look at bios files

Gtx 550ti 1G


Try 1 of those above make sure it has Elpida, and VGA, HDMI(or DP) and DVI-I

Or 1 of these


@eledyar
 
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I have flashed it with the bios you sent me, I get other graphics, like gtx 1050ti or gtx 960 in device manager
 
I have flashed it with the bios you sent me, I get other graphics, like gtx 1050ti or gtx 960 in device manager
So the files i gave caused the gpu to appear as such? Have you removed and reinstalled the driver?

(Gotten the last known 1 for gtx 550ti?
 
Yes I did before I wrote that, really what seems strange to me is that no 550ti that I have seen does not have the 6-pin connector, i'm confused, maybe is a gts 450 1gb
 
Yes I did before I wrote that, really what seems strange to me is that no 550ti that I have seen does not have the 6-pin connector, i'm confused, maybe is a gts 450 1gb
And those 450 gts bios i provided made the gpu do what?
 
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