GPU-Z Can Now Detect Fake NVIDIA Graphics Cards

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.

FAKE!?

[EvilSS]

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

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[Anonymous Coward]

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.

I think the trouble is 1070s

[rsilvergun]

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.

One more story I want to add

[rsilvergun]

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.

Re: FAKE!?

[Type44Q]

Two words: plastic rice.

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[PopeRatzo]

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.

Re: Moderation

[Cmdln Daco]

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

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[Cmdln Daco]

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

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[PopeRatzo]

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

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[PopeRatzo]

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... [jamanetwork.com]

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[shaitand]

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.

I assume...

[NotFamous]

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

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[Aighearach]

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

here is a better solution

[WindBourne]

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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[thegarbz]

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.

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[WindBourne]

Well, tell you what. Since you do not know where they are made at, lets google for it [google.com]
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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[thegarbz]

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.

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[WindBourne]

You mean like this? [graphicscardhub.com]
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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[thegarbz]

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.

After the horse has left the barn?

[yodleboy]

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?

Re: After the horse has left the barn?

[Cmdln Daco]

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.

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[Anil]

could possibly dispute the charge.