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GPU-Z Can Now Detect Fake NVIDIA Graphics Cards (bleepingcomputer.com)
An anonymous reader shares a report: Sellers have been modifying lower end NVIDIA graphics cards and selling them more powerful cards online. In a recent version of the GPU-Z graphics card information utility, TechPowerUp has added the ability to now detect these fake NVIDIA cards. This new feature allows buyers of cards to detect if the card is actually a relabled NVIDIA G84, G86, G92, G94, G96, GT215, GT216, GT218, GF108, GF106, GF114, GF116, GF119, or GK106 GPU by displaying an exclamation point where the NVIDIA logo would normally appear and also prepends the string "[FAKE]" before the card's name.
You mean that $69 1080TI I bought from aliexpress isn't real?
I browse on +1 so AC's need not respond, I won't see it.
The other pertinent question is if this means NVidia can now detect users trying to tell Windows that their Quattro is a consumer level card just to get VGA-Passthrough to work on qemu / KVM virtual machines?
You definitely have to use some common sense about it when purchasing from China. I've gotten some amazing prices on things. Many parts require a bit of sanding or finishing but I have legitimately gotten numerous things that were $50-300 for $3 or less plus a month shipping from China.
Of course I've also gotten fakes, crap that was 3d printed with horrible settings so that it was stringy low res plastic garbage that I'd throw in a trash bin if it came off my printer at home.
again?
You buy Chinese made dildos?
Unfortunately, no such luck for fake girl/boy friends.
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being sold on eBay as 1080s. Or 1050 TIs as 1060s (which is easy enough since a 1050 TI has 4 gigs of ram while there's 3gb 1060s out there). 570/580 is another popular scam since there are 4 and 8 gb variants of both.
The goal is to be close enough that by the time you realize you've been had you're past a regular return window.
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SuperKendall can be annoying, but he's mostly rational (emphasis on mostly). Sometimes he's spot-on, other times he's in low Earth orbit wondering where all the oxygen went.
However, "1110101" guy, or "Binary Bro" as we call him, is a flat out brain-fucked douchebag, and is as dogmatic as a meth-addled fundamentalist preacher from the backwoods of Alabama.
Logic and facts and *proof* are just impediments to Binary Bro's way of 'thinking'. Don't waste a moment of your life engaging with him- it's about as productive as shooting a BB gun at a battleship. He's impervious to reason or truth or ANYTHING that conflicts with his world view.
Sellers have been modifying lower end NVIDIA graphics cards and selling them more powerful cards online.
I ain't done sold none a them cards, I only here sold one a em cheapuns
My mother used to say "Don't wresle with a pig. You both get dirty, and the pig likes it."
Me so solly!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Just manufacturer them in the west and then export back to China and elsewhere. If board comes from CHina, then it is fake.
Issue solved.
I prefer the "u" in honour as it seems to be missing these days.
Does this mean they're going to start calling the GTX970 fake since nVidia put false information in the driver to match the false claim of addressable VRAM and ROPs?
Cool story, creimy.
This is cool and all, but if someone is going to hack a card and sell it to you, do you expect to have any recourse if you see that it's a fake after the sale?
That's too harsh. Both of those guys are OK, and mean well. A little obtuse, maybe, but not bad people. Imagine the uncle who comes to Thanksgiving with all his opinions from Fox and creates one-man arguments. You still love him, and sometimes when you get him to lower his guard he'll act like a human being, but you have to treat him with a little respect because down deep, that's all he really wants. He wants to be heard and loved and he's been manipulated into thinking those things are impossible unless he's a hostile grievance-machine.
You are welcome on my lawn.
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I've heard the same thing about your mother.
You are welcome on my lawn.
VGA out supported, not only digital
less power use
works with the nouveau driver
big cooler to disguise it
I've always wanted one like this (GT430, GT640, etc.)
Cards like these or from AMD used to be overpriced and now they're gone.
Yeah, well she probably said it to a lot of people.
when I was a lad my bro got a Gateway PC. Specs said it had a Rage II. Not a great chip for the time, but it can run Quack 1/2 & Duke Nuke'em respectably. But his ran like crap. Sub 20 fps.
He figured that out when he installed Linux and mod probe told him it was really a Mach 64. For a more modern example Dell has been caught selling 570s with way fewer cores than a "real" 570.
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Or the whiny progressive uncle who can't stop railing against trump or babbling about Russian conspiracy theories. The rest can't stop thinking that his ilk are what got trump elected in the first place.
IF its the same performance, do i care if its not real?
( hint, i dont )
We already know what got Trump elected in the first place. There have been peer-reviewed studies published in the Journal of the American Medical Association.
https://jamanetwork.com/journa...
You are welcome on my lawn.
Putin said "Shearing pigs yields little wool and a lot of screaming".
retard
Sounds like a core area of expertise for somebody like Putin who has climbed to the top of a huge heap of pigs.
If people weren't so greedy and expecting to get something for nothing there wouldn't be any fakes.
Pay the correct price and buy from the correct place. No demand for cheap fakes, no supply of cheap fakes.
It might yield delicious pork scratching though.