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GPU-Z Can Now Detect Fake NVIDIA Graphics Cards (bleepingcomputer.com)

Posted by msmash on from the useful-updates dept.

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.

60 comments

  1. Who wrote this? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1

    "Sellers have been modifying lower end NVIDIA graphics cards and selling them more powerful cards online."

    That's written in Creimish.

    1. Re:Who wrote this? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1

      Creimer who has zero comments. I can see why you're so obessed with him.

    2. Re:Who wrote this? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1

      Also zero submissions and zero karma. I guess this guy also isn't creimer. I guess that's the only you'll ever see a number one with your name...

    3. Re:Who wrote this? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1

      You're complaining about creimer. If you were complaining about cre1mer, you would have mentioned cre1mer by name. No, you're obessed with creimer who has no comments, no karma and no submissions. Sad. Fucking sad.

    4. Re:Who wrote this? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1

      creimer is so immense he contains multitudes. Do you contain cre1mer, The Original CDR and 15 cashews sock pockets? Very well then, you contain multitudes, as well as soy vanilla lattés and WalMart granola bars by the pallet. Fat. Fucking fat.

    5. Re:Who wrote this? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Cool story, creimy.

  2. FAKE!? by EvilSS · · Score: 4, Insightful

    You mean that $69 1080TI I bought from aliexpress isn't real?

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    1. Re:FAKE!? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

      One day to come we shall raise our hands in the card wars. Blood cards will be the shame of the generation and the builders around the world swear to use only conflict free NVidia cards.

    2. Re: FAKE!? by Type44Q · · Score: 1

      Two words: plastic rice.

    3. Re:FAKE!? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Usually fake 750 Ti gddr5 cards that are actually GT 640 ddr3 cards, much easier to get away with. Buyers tend to notice that their GTX 980 is a relabeled 760, etc.

    4. Re: FAKE!? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      The notion of plastic rice is absurd. While plastic is cheap, rice is also very cheap, it would likely cost more to make fake rice than you could sell it for.

      Are you implying that the stories about fake graphics cards are fictional, or do you really think plastic rice was fraudulently sold as real rice?

  3. Moderation by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1

    How the hell does moderation work around here? I mod something offtopic and it goes from +3 to +5? How else am I supposed to mod down cunts like the 1110101 guy and SuperKendall?

    1. Re:Moderation by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Insightful

      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.

    2. Re:Moderation by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      My mother used to say "Don't wresle with a pig. You both get dirty, and the pig likes it."

    3. Re:Moderation by PopeRatzo · · Score: 1

      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.

      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.

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    4. Re:Moderation by PopeRatzo · · Score: 1

      My mother used to say "Don't wresle with a pig. You both get dirty, and the pig likes it."

      I've heard the same thing about your mother.

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    5. Re: Moderation by Cmdln+Daco · · Score: 1

      Yeah, well she probably said it to a lot of people.

    6. Re: Moderation by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      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.

    7. Re: Moderation by PopeRatzo · · Score: 1

      The rest can't stop thinking that his ilk are what got trump elected in the first place.

      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...

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    8. Re: Moderation by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Putin said "Shearing pigs yields little wool and a lot of screaming".

    9. Re: Moderation by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      retard

    10. Re: Moderation by Cmdln+Daco · · Score: 1

      Sounds like a core area of expertise for somebody like Putin who has climbed to the top of a huge heap of pigs.

    11. Re: Moderation by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      It might yield delicious pork scratching though.

  4. Chinese by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1

    Don't ever buy anything from China or made in China. Your chances of getting ripped off drop significantly.

    I find it hard to feel sorry for anybody ordering from chinese junksites. You're lucky if you don't get a box of ebola virus.

    1. Re:Chinese by shaitand · · Score: 2

      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.

    2. Re:Chinese by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      You buy Chinese made dildos?

    3. Re:Chinese by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Me so solly!

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

  5. qemu / kvm by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    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?

    1. Re:qemu / kvm by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      I think you have that backwards. The Quadros (quattro is an audi) are the ones "approved" for server use where pcie-passthrough is usually a thing while the Geforces are theoretically blocked.

  6. Putin? by umghhh · · Score: 0

    again?

  7. Yuo Fail it... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1

    [theos.com] on his 1. Therefore There open platform,

  8. I assume... by NotFamous · · Score: 1

    Unfortunately, no such luck for fake girl/boy friends.

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    1. Re:I assume... by Aighearach · · Score: 1

      As long as you don't tell yourself, you'll never know! Solved.

  9. I think the trouble is 1070s by rsilvergun · · Score: 3, Informative

    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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  10. Them there cards by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    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

  11. here is a better solution by WindBourne · · Score: 1

    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.

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    1. Re:here is a better solution by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Then don't complain when it costs three times as much.

    2. Re: here is a better solution by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Lol. Most of it is automated, dipshit.

    3. Re:here is a better solution by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      LOL how on Earth do you think that would work? How will you know where it comes from? How will that stop anything?
      Oh it's just another of your anti-China rants, carry on.

    4. Re:here is a better solution by thegarbz · · Score: 1

      If board comes from CHina, then it is fake.

      Issue solved.

      Oh I didn't realise only the Chinese were scam artists. I guess I should be answering those helpful "Your computer has a virus" phone calls that originate from USA numbers then.

      Actual reailty: Place of manufacturer and checking where a product is coming from has zero to do with solving fraud.

    5. Re:here is a better solution by WindBourne · · Score: 1

      Well, tell you what. Since you do not know where they are made at, lets google for it
      I think that will correct your reality.
      The simple fact is, that you have to have the machines and other chips to make these. And how many locations have them? America, Germany, UK, Canada, Israel and above all, China.

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    6. Re:here is a better solution by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      That's no help at all, it just tells you ebay.

    7. Re:here is a better solution by thegarbz · · Score: 1

      No I'm just calling out the absurdity of your idea that you're able to "filter" things by where they are made.

      I'm interested to know how you think you will be able to control the information you receive on the source of the cards from people who in this case are not only untrustworthy but have a vested interest to lie to keep their scam going.

    8. Re:here is a better solution by WindBourne · · Score: 1

      You mean like this?
      If you have been in hardware at all, you would know that almost all of the fake equipment comes out of China.
      That is why Trump is crashing down on China, and why W/O promised to (but did nothing).

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    9. Re:here is a better solution by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Almost all of everything comes out of China, so the statement is meaningless.

    10. Re:here is a better solution by thegarbz · · Score: 1

      If you have been in hardware at all, you would know that almost all of the fake equipment comes out of China.

      I know that. Maybe try re-reading my post.

  12. They're 1/1024th real by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1

    And 1/1024th is enough for a lily-white 1%er to pass herself off as a "person of color" and get an affirmative-action boost to her career.

    And some $$ for some plagiarized recipes - Pow Wow Chow! FTW!

  13. 4GB by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    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?

    1. Re:4GB by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      3.5

  14. I thank You for your time by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1

    Fly...don't fear successes with the get how Pe0ple can the problems fly...don't fear but it's not a

  15. After the horse has left the barn? by yodleboy · · Score: 1

    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?

    1. Re: After the horse has left the barn? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Chargeback on a credit card usually works. Don't buy sketchy stuff with your main account.

    2. Re: After the horse has left the barn? by Cmdln+Daco · · Score: 1

      Why buy sketchy stuff in the first place? In case the seller screws up and sells you non-junk? That's probably not a common mistake sketchy sellers make.

    3. Re:After the horse has left the barn? by Anil · · Score: 1

      could possibly dispute the charge.

  16. WOW by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    and
    it
    only
    took
    another
    ten
    years
    to
    inform
    the
    knowledgable
    and
    informed
    dweeples :)

    caption : flashy

  17. These cards actually are better by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    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.

    1. Re: These cards actually are better by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Better for what exactly?

  18. One more story I want to add by rsilvergun · · Score: 1

    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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  19. does it matter by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    IF its the same performance, do i care if its not real?

    ( hint, i dont )

  20. It's your own greedy stupid fault by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    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.