chinese gtx 1050 ti

[simon1138]

hello,
recently i bought one of these off ebay to see what it was like. i plugged it in and it seems to work. i checked the performance of it on gfx benchmark and it shows the results as half what the real gtx is. i also used cpuid and that showed that the clock of the card was 324Mhz approx. i have contacted the ebay seller and put this across to them. is there some way that i can increase the clock speed on a graphics card?

 

[SpyderTracks]

hello,
recently i bought one of these off ebay to see what it was like. i plugged it in and it seems to work. i checked the performance of it on gfx benchmark and it shows the results as half what the real gtx is. i also used cpuid and that showed that the clock of the card was 324Mhz approx. i have contacted the ebay seller and put this across to them. is there some way that i can increase the clock speed on a graphics card?

These forums are for support for PC Specialist systems, you may want to check out somewhere like Tom's Hardware which is an open forum.

It's a fake card, basically, you've been ripped off.

For reference, these are the numbers for a real 1050 of all variants, all the clocks are miles ahead of what you've been sold:

NVIDIA GP107 GPU Specs

768 Cores, 48 TMUs, 32 ROPs

www.techpowerup.com

All they've done is hack the vBIOS of some ancient card to make it appear like a 1050. But it's not a 1050. It even states it PCIe2, whereas all modern cards since 2010 are PCIe3

I'm going to lock this thread as it's against forum rules to discuss warez.

 

[Oussebon]

Just in case someone else finds this topic while searching the web.

This kind of scam is very well documented and has been reported on quite a lot by PC hardware media:

There are a lot of fake "chinese" GPUs on the market.

I've reported listings to Amazon and Ebay, though they seemed to ignore the reports.