I only glanced at the thread as was in a rush - thought it best to post even though I thought there would be a reason, just in case. Not a fan of people wasting money, but yeah, should really only look when I have time
You need to remove the TIM to read whats on the chip and so you can re-apply new TIM to refit the heatsink. If you don't clean it and apply new TIM you will mostly likely get over heating issues. What device is reporting in device manager? Which drivers did you install manually or do you let windows do it automatically?
From most of the customer reviews on amazon not the greatest place I know but I've normally gone with Nvidia so thats what the GF brought while I was hMMMING AND AHHHING I paid 102.98 for 2 of them, yes I know, well I know now, especially as I've just brought 2 proper ones and they cost me 343.98 for the 2 seeing as the new ones turning up today I decided to try and benchmark the fake.
There are numerous listings right now for these suspiciously cheap 1050TIs. They really need reporting.
Just to confuse matters further, Ebay is being flooded with ex-cyber cafe GTX 1050 2GB, 1050ti 3GB and 1050ti 4GB cards from China, where there are a bunch of region exclusive models. Those cards 'are' genuine but are all so thoroughly thrashed they maye as well be fake.
I'm going to buy one to go with my £9 - 128GB Micro SD card: https://www.amazon.co.uk/SanCard-Micro-Class6-MicroSDHC-Smartphone-128gb/dp/B0787GPY69/ It must be real since it comes from a reputable brand like SanCard... It is bad how easily obvious fakes are sold on reputable sites. To an extent it doesn't matter to most people here, because you can take a punt and check it out for yourself. If (when) it is fake you might even get a free odd bit of tech to play with, on on very rare occasions a silly bargain. However they must be making money somewhere along the line by screwing people, and they're using Amazon/eBay's sense of familiarity and security (ymmv) to help them do it. Sometimes I even see obviously fake cards turn up on Amazon Warehouse Deals, which means they've probably be sent back for obvious reasons and now Amazon are effectively reselling them themselves clearly without actually checking them or dealing with the issue.
well after being told by paypal to send the olds ones back I rang them and got though to an advisor who as it turns out is a gamer, I explained the issue with the cards being counterfeit and the cost of sending them back and now I've got a full refund and I don't have to send them back. so its a win for me
If they've refunded you without wanting to investigate, it must be quite a common thing - as pointed out above. Glad you've recovered your dosh and are up and running.
okay so the counterfeit cards saga continues for curiosity's sake I've removed the thermal paste (what there was of it) and cleaned the chip so I can see whats written on it which is as follows (its in caps because that's how it appears on the card) The first card NVIDIA 12C18163 1202A1 s taiwan PFN614.MO1 GF116-400-A1 The second card NVIDIA 12C78008 1226A1 S TAIWAN PHY1255.MO1 GF116-400-A1 Problem being I have no idea how you use those numbers to identify the cards. Edit: Okay googling the last row of numbers returns that both cards are Nvidia geforce 550 ti's.
