Aliexpress video cards.

So has anyone ever bought a video card from Aliexpress ? These cards seem incredibly cheap and they are probably fake.
I looked up some other forums and most of them said that these are just 9800gt's/GTS 250's with a reflashed bios.
That seems to be true judging by the core clock.
Any experience with any of these fake cards ?

http://www.aliexpress.com/store/pro...ds-GTX-Nvidia-Geforce/516619_32224637459.html
http://www.aliexpress.com/item/100-...84bit-independent-video-card/32272496603.html

 

Nice VGA port on those "770"s...

Also, the second auction even says "not that good as the original", "please Don\\\'t compare with the original!".

 

I've bought plenty of no-name Chinese cards but never from Aliexpress. That's why I've never got burned.
If I see something is a shop I might take a gamble knowing I can take it back the next day. I'd be insane to do that if I have to wait a month and then pay to ship it back. So would you.

 

They are popping up on ebay too.
Looks like a redesigned PCB, you could probably use it but it will use shitty ram and power management (only a single 6pin connector, so doesn't require much current)...
Thought about buying one but even the heatsink would need replacing (they all use aluminum heatsinks).

Design wise they look like ultra cut down pcbs, I have a GTX660 Gigabyte card which is probably pushing it as far as least amount of passives goes and the aliexpress-special 660TI even has LESS passives!

Expect at 770 but it won't over clock (probs has a lower boost too)..

Take this GTX 760, the stock base speed is 980Mhz where the Aliexpress-special is (Here: http://www.aliexpress.com/item/Free...DX11-Graphics-card-video-card/2055742459.html) is 810Mhz!

And DDR3?!

 

Oh come one, I don't think any real GTX 770 card comes with GDDR3 memory. Spec for the GTX 770 on Nvidia's website only list GDDR5 memory.

 

I still want to know how they did it

 

I wouldn't even bother wasting my time or money on it to be honest. They're going to be bad quality, have bad performance and probably last about a month before blowing up or something.

 

Actually, the stock cooling is not so bad for those dual fan cards. I have a friend who bought an actual gts 250 from aliexpress about a year ago. I have been to his place and the video card wasn't loud, even when playing games. He also said that it doesn't get hotter than 80C.

I would really like to know the true performance of these cards, because I might buy one. And in my country there are people selling GTX 560's for 80 EUR, so a used card is a rip off and there is no point in getting one.

 

.... I can verify these are (obviously) not authentic. The normal nVidia drivers will work. (Due to them being universal) You get what you pay for. This means that these video cards will have the performance of a $50 video card (As per price). I remember an authentic GTX550 Ti being much faster than these cards.

Worst thing is that there is no warranty on these things. I do not suggest buying them at all. But of course considering you will pay $60 for them, yes you get what you pay for.... >.<

I'll get the benchmark program these sellers are using so I can give you a metric of their real performance.

 

The cheap works out expensive. Same reason you don't buy cheap PSUs or heatsinks. It will work out more in the end, buy quality well known brands that have proper customer support and driver support.

Most cheap Chinese companies don't care about the consumer, (I'm not talking about well known Chinese companies like XIAMOI and Meizu). There will be barely any support for the cards, and most likely the lifespan will be very short. Just like those cheap Android tablets you see floating on eBay.

 

This is a benchmark of my GeForce GTX 550 Ti. According to the Ludashi Benchmark, it's almost 2x faster compared to that GTX 770 (27364 VS 15191). But then it's twice as expensive so yeah....



Probably no higher than 720p gaming on that GTX 770 video card...... If you really want "cheaper" cards, the best I could suggest is search for "Yeston" in AliExpress. They are cheaper (At times even cheaper chan Palit/Galaxy), but I don't know how can you get warranty/support......

PS. It's Xiaomi, not Xiamoi....... Remind me of food....

 

It's fake. Some can not even function properly and can not be redone back to the 9800gt's/GTS 250.

If you want a cheap card buy used one which has a lot of offers (Radeon 7xxx used for mining are very cheap now).

 

Typo.

I also wouldn't be surprised if these catch fire

 

I guess that I'll just wait for a good deal for a used video card.
I had a Radeon HD 7850, but I sold it a month ago. I would like something more powerful.

 

It would be really cool if someone did a side by side comparison of the chinese knockoff and the real deal but unfortunately I couldn't see anyone wanting to waste $60 just to prove a point.

 

nah just do a kickstarter lol

 

I hate the fact that almost no one reviews these kind of products on Aliexpress. There is an option to do that and it's very easy, you can even add your own pictures.
I would really like to see a professional like LinusTechTips to this comparison. Sadly, I don't see that happening.

 

No one reviews these probably because no one really trusts them in their PCs.

 

On Aliexpress you can see how many people have bought the product. If 20 people have bought the product, then at the most there will usually be 1-2 reviews.
I wonder how they reflashed the bios on those fake video cards.

 

I order alott from there and most items are ok. but items like this need feedback in my opinion. Im not sure if it is posible but Amazone had problems with stores buying fake feedback/reviews. with items over 25USD or whatever I only buy it when there is some reviews or feedback.

dont burn you money on this, the chinese market is flooded with rebranded shit. unless you like to tinker with it yourself (as in, reball, reflow or mod away xtremely) dont buy it. I have broken tft screens and seller doing nothing to compensate for DOA.(this one seller, others might be polite and refund, resend an item) so even if you like to buy it, it could be broken and shit to return. unless your buying something special like a devkit or chinese famiclone for your collection.