A gts450, hope you didn’t pay more than 20 bucks for it
Hattix
From the looks of things, probably a 1050 Ti. Maybe Zotac.
davew_uk
So my friends son wanted to get into PC gaming, but didn’t wait for advice. So far he’s bought some i7 4770 “gaming PC” and this “refurbished” GPU from Ebay that he couldn’t get to work – not a good start!
I offered to test it and this is what came in the post – it has no branding on it anywhere, chinese instructions and an ancient driver disc. I popped it in a spare PC and while the fans spin up it produces no video output. After removing it, I had to reset my CMOS as the PC would no longer post!
He has had a refund from the seller so this is now e-waste but I’m curious to know what even is it. Certainly the cooler does not match the PCB and there is no visible branding on it anywhere.
thef0ksmasher
That is a GTS450/GTX550 core that has been harvested and placed on to a new PCB to be sold as a GTX 1050 Ti to some poor unsuspecting victim. The hacked drivers also play along with the masquerade.
The funniest thing about these fake GPUs is that there are fake GT710s floating around with like a GT210 core. Like who are they trying to scam with that. Like imagine buying a GT710, which is the bottom of the barrel, to try and run some older games and you get conned into buying something even crappier.
Edit: my memory is a bit hazy on this but iirc a few of the fake GT710s even came with better cores than the real one.
zeblods
That’s a common Nvidia GPU scam: they use a very old GPU with a “new” PCB and cooler, and fiddle with the BIOS to make it look like a newer/better GPU with more VRAM that it actually has. That’s why they provide the precise driver it might work with (but it’s a driver they fiddled with, probably has virus in it…).
MrVulture42
Looks like a typical scammer card. Probably a 450 or 550, by that I mean good ol Fermi.
Man, how are these pieces of shit still around? This has been going on for years now. You would think they’d run out of Fermi-Chips at some point.
simo402
Scam gpu from wish
Haruko_time_consumer
That’s a fraudulent bios reflashed card. It’s an easy scam; you take a very old obsolete gpu and you trick the firmware to make itself think it is a much newer card.
theholypigeon888
What in the fx7200 era is this?
NoMoreFerrite
Average ebay gpu
DynamicHunter
Absolutely 0 point in buying this scam even if you were scrapped for cash
FRITZSANDWICH
What the hell Is even that ?
Raceryan8_
Scam
djackson404
Let me guess: AliExpress?
alien-eight
Your garden variety scam.
Professional_Gaping
AMD do this in the backrooms to mess with Nvidia’s public image,
The_Pacific_gamer
It’s the temu special.
Gentle_Capybara
I wonder how the makers of these things profit. Desoldering a GPU from the PCB and soldering it into a new board must be a finicky process. And then you get to tune up the bios.
hotkarl628
I bet it gets great air flow 😂
Voxelium
yonameisunavailable
drydorn
Here’s a fine example of: you get what you pay for…
JaggedMetalOs
I’d like the “2 kids in a trenchcoat” GPU please!
PcDealer007
Aliexpress or temu special. Mhm i like
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TannerWheelman
It’s everything but the thing you’ve bought. Basically an fake.
Klutzy_Goat_6527
Fake. Refund.
Peetz0r
I love how the driver manual comes with Windows XP screenshots. XP is 23 years old and has been EoL for 10 years. This exact scam must be going on for a very long time at this point.
I wonder if these hacked drivers could even work on windows 10/11 at all.
Smellfish360
if you are buying a refurbished or old gpu, you can more easily check if you’re being scammed by checking the i/o ports. if there’s an analog one like vga or dvi-a, and it’s marketed as a gtx 10xx or above, don’t get it.
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please don’t put that in your computer
A gts450, hope you didn’t pay more than 20 bucks for it
From the looks of things, probably a 1050 Ti. Maybe Zotac.
So my friends son wanted to get into PC gaming, but didn’t wait for advice. So far he’s bought some i7 4770 “gaming PC” and this “refurbished” GPU from Ebay that he couldn’t get to work – not a good start!
I offered to test it and this is what came in the post – it has no branding on it anywhere, chinese instructions and an ancient driver disc. I popped it in a spare PC and while the fans spin up it produces no video output. After removing it, I had to reset my CMOS as the PC would no longer post!
He has had a refund from the seller so this is now e-waste but I’m curious to know what even is it. Certainly the cooler does not match the PCB and there is no visible branding on it anywhere.
That is a GTS450/GTX550 core that has been harvested and placed on to a new PCB to be sold as a GTX 1050 Ti to some poor unsuspecting victim. The hacked drivers also play along with the masquerade.
The funniest thing about these fake GPUs is that there are fake GT710s floating around with like a GT210 core. Like who are they trying to scam with that. Like imagine buying a GT710, which is the bottom of the barrel, to try and run some older games and you get conned into buying something even crappier.
Edit: my memory is a bit hazy on this but iirc a few of the fake GT710s even came with better cores than the real one.
That’s a common Nvidia GPU scam: they use a very old GPU with a “new” PCB and cooler, and fiddle with the BIOS to make it look like a newer/better GPU with more VRAM that it actually has. That’s why they provide the precise driver it might work with (but it’s a driver they fiddled with, probably has virus in it…).
Looks like a typical scammer card. Probably a 450 or 550, by that I mean good ol Fermi.
Man, how are these pieces of shit still around? This has been going on for years now. You would think they’d run out of Fermi-Chips at some point.
Scam gpu from wish
That’s a fraudulent bios reflashed card. It’s an easy scam; you take a very old obsolete gpu and you trick the firmware to make itself think it is a much newer card.
What in the fx7200 era is this?
Average ebay gpu
Absolutely 0 point in buying this scam even if you were scrapped for cash
What the hell Is even that ?
Scam
Let me guess: AliExpress?
Your garden variety scam.
AMD do this in the backrooms to mess with Nvidia’s public image,
It’s the temu special.
I wonder how the makers of these things profit. Desoldering a GPU from the PCB and soldering it into a new board must be a finicky process. And then you get to tune up the bios.
I bet it gets great air flow 😂
Here’s a fine example of: you get what you pay for…
I’d like the “2 kids in a trenchcoat” GPU please!
Aliexpress or temu special. Mhm i like
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It’s everything but the thing you’ve bought. Basically an fake.
Fake. Refund.
I love how the driver manual comes with Windows XP screenshots. XP is 23 years old and has been EoL for 10 years. This exact scam must be going on for a very long time at this point.
I wonder if these hacked drivers could even work on windows 10/11 at all.
if you are buying a refurbished or old gpu, you can more easily check if you’re being scammed by checking the i/o ports. if there’s an analog one like vga or dvi-a, and it’s marketed as a gtx 10xx or above, don’t get it.