there are 2 memory chips * 256MB + 4 * 128 MB. Total 1 GB VRAM. This was an original GeForce GTX 550 Ti 1GB VRAM with a flashed BIOS. No Frankenstein. Just a lie.

1060's do not have VGA, its very easy to spot

Linus didnt bought these 50$ Crapcards, he bought some for around 300$ and these were real 1060s....

20:42 Nice little mention to the Big Man Himself. Long live Big Clive.

It sounds like you weren't a FAN of the cooling on those cards ... I love how broken a lot of the hand soldered parts are

Ah, looks like it's one of those dreaded "Thermi" cores. Pair it with a P4 Netburst and you have yourself the perfect room heater.

That reflection at 13:54 at top left edge - is the chip chipped? maybe these chips were non-approved lot?

The 1060 doesn't support SLI... so the sli Connectors made clear that it should be an older graphic card... and the faint scratch marks are from someone scrapping the manufacturing codes like in 1060 "GP 106 A1" which are printed not engraved onto the chip.

so your friend offscreen went to the "Brian Blessed" school of acting. i was waiting for him to say " well actuallyyyyyyyy"

weird. The T0c are 2gb, the GQ2 in the number means 2 gb. The T2c have HQ1 which are 1gb but that doesn't add up unless you don't count the ones on the back. It could be that some are dead and the soldered them on just to fill the spots.

the scuff marks are there because they removed the old die markings and put on new ones

Very interesting. Would be very happy if you could do others video like this.

His clock in the bottom right threw me off LOL Bloody Hell , my TIME is wrong.

The reason the scuff marks are there is because the scammers sand down the die number so people cant figure out what the card actually is

Can you flash original bios (GF116)?

You sound exactly like the dark destroyer on the chase haha.

Have you seen some videos from Philscomputerlab? He does a few on these chinese BIOS modded cards and even fixes the BIOS so the card is proper.

That folding at home software, nice

when i am looking at 9 or 10 series cards from NV, if i see VGA port thats a major red flag, im not aware of any of those series' that had VGA ports

You guys should have flashed a new bios to get it to what it was "born" as. 😋

Very intresting video, thanks :)

can you repair a r9 390 that goes black scree when i try to watch your videos? still has sound. can it be a 500 watt psu is to smaoll

It's a GTS 450 rev2. You can search PKK167 and first result will told you. The scratch on the chip is where the chip name(GF116-200-KA-A1) use to be. They can's really change MTU/RPOS from the BIOS. (If they can, they will just put in 1060 spec). GPU-Z either unable to read the info correctly, or the chip is a cut down version of the GF116-200-KA-A1 with 4 ROPS turned off. Try flash it with GTS450v2 bios see if it will work with office drivers. That could be a good video.

Do u have cd driver where i can get it thanks

Each one of those chips is a 1 gigabit (i.e., 1/8th of a gigabyte). So the card actually has 1 gigabyte GDDR5 VRAM. What's worse is that, because windows thinks the card has more than 1gb, it will try to write past 1gb and, when that doesn't work, the 3D app you have running will crash.

this is the driver for my gtx 470 card the nvidia website selected for me for win 7/64, but when I was using win 10/64 it used a 386.?? driver.

I wouldn't even risk plugging that piece of trash in my rig

Cyber cafes LOL I remember late 90s going to a coffee shop to pop money into a machine to see the "internet" LOL

I bought 2x GTX 980ti's before the 1080ti was a thing and I just couldn't wait any longer. It turned out that one of them was faulty and replaced within a few weeks.

The driver problem is simpler than that, its because the newer drivers do not support that chip as its now in the legacy driver.

I'm Canadian, but I live in the US. When I hear someone say Z (Zed) it's like I'm home! Plus Zed was used well before Z (zee) in history anyway!

The dead giveaway those cards are fake is the fact they VGA outputs on the card. As another person said - 10xx series cards do not have vga connectors.

Using qc failed memory has a long history in computers. Both commodore and sinclair did that.

I recently got a antec neo eco gold 700w to run my 2070 super oc do you happened to know of this is a good psu? I noticed you have a antec. I also am wondering of I should plug the second cpu cable in as a four pin on my x570 after using the 8 pin on the other of course?

so 12x 1Gbit ram chips, which is 1.5GBytes, how did you miss that? its a GTX550ti 1.5GB version, and will work like one when you put on a bios suitable for the card, on 'techpowerup' website, look for one for GTX550ti for Point Of View (legitimate graphics card manufacturer/bios creator, i cant remember which), and you can get your money back from those cards too, i did when i got a 1060 3GB (of course fake) from Wish and kept the card.

The "big warning signal" was the VGA port ..............and the fact it was unbranded...............and the price.............and the fact it was from China

Interesting an advert for I wish before video

12:45 it's sanded. I tried it my self on 6200 TC by using sandpaper.

Maybe those cards were originally used for crypto-mining? I remembered that ethereum mining needs >4GB of VRAM

Lucky I bought mine off KIJIJI MONTREAL ASUS GTX 1060 3G and it's awesome so happy.. 224 Frames in most games.. 1366x768 ULTRA Over 129 Frames at 1080P I am blowen away by this cards performance just love it. I am looking forward to buying the RTX 3080 Ti 24G Hyper-drive Special Super OC in the Future..

I just bought 2 of these, Newley released yesterday. It stated it was a 1060 6gb. Due to issues with God’s these days I figured I’d give it a shot. Hope I have better results cause they were almost $200 each. I only bought to test for mining so if they work and last 6 months I would be happy. Guess we’ll have to wait and see.

its a hacked bios that gives gpuz its values the device id outo fills a lot of gpuz data messed with this trying to mod a 3gb 1060 to a 6gb found pcb jumper configs changes memory size it detects but device id locks drivers so thay dont use all 6gb ram chips installed but card still works but has a 3gb bottle neck due to drivers

the 391.24 driver is for the 400 series graphics cards

i have one what should i do with it

Shout out to Michael McIntyre for helping Graham with this video:)

the card doesnt actually have 5GB, i think the mem chips are 256 or 128mb

I really recommend a book by Paul Midler called 'Poorly Made in China'. A very entertaining read about the amazing subterfuges the Chinese will adopt to make a swift yuan or twenty. Or twenty thousand. Happy days.

A 550ti?

I did find it very interesting to see how far the Chinese will go to sell things.

I dont see any heat pipes..

F that where's my cheap chinese ford king ranch? Arhhgg!

if you check the chip you will probably find a gts 450 chip re-purposed

its about what thay get there hands on they go to a vender and ask what you have and if it atal runs then thay get it at 1000 peaces

got to b extra carefull on these... some are shot up cards with 12v pin shorted to make the fan spins... might kill mobo.....

did you get it to run anything ?

I wonder what's the next rebranded fake card when the Chinese run out of those GTS 450/GTX 550 Ti cards. :D

Wonder what Linux would think of this card.

My mother had bought me this card like 3 years ago and it never worked and she payed a lot of money for it,just to be scammed😭

After seeing tons of videos saying the same thing about these cards.....why hasn't any bios modder made a specific bios for all these fake cards? Like couldn't you just correct all the errors and give it the proper ram for the gpu chip?

why dont u benchmark it to compare it to othe cards?

Always said, sounds too good to be true, probably is

Interesting why not build a good one instead of Fake? I wonder why, thanks for the Video

you're going to toast this gpu running Furmark on it

They’d make more money by selling them for cheaper and selling them in an actual working condition. Also, be careful, some of these have been made to fry anything they’re plugged into 😬

chip gf116 is GTX 550ti 1gb, Why is there a 1000W power supply in this computer? it is a waste of customer money. Power supply for cheap cards up to 500W.

Linus bought a China MAXSUN GTX1060. Its China but its a branded card.

Saw this on another channel, turned out to be a GTX 750

I know eBay is selling fake 1050ti and 750ti and I seen some suspicious looking cards on Newegg and other sites. The give away is the cards with gaps in the PiCe contacts.

They used Cootie-cores instead.

gtx1060 3g 5g 6g not support sli

I looks like a 550 ti Frankenstein

Lets hope this approach doesn't overflow to A-quality stuff. Then nothing works...

1060s don't have SLI fingers

i need the drivers please!!

They wanted super cheap 1060s for the domestic market so they went from 6GB to 5GB, i am sure that made the card alot cheaper.. why not just go with the 3GB ones? XD

Heck in china you have to watch out for counterfeit beer, so gfx cards no problem!

yes these cards are real, the 5GB model is for China ONLY and yes they DO have VGA ports but are generally not active although there IS room to put the chips needed to output a VGA signal. you can also get a gpu meant only for crypto mining, and solder on a HDMI port and reflash the BIOS and have a cheap card for gaming, or just tunnel it through the iGPU.

I bought a 1080 ti off wish and it was a fake and turned out to be a p116 gpu chip rebranded

I HAVE BOUGHT THOSE FROM TAOBAO AND WORKS WITH MODIFIED DRIVES

Memory and general storage specs are among the easiest things to fake on bogus hardware. I'd make a guess that there ISN'T 5GB on that card, lol. It likely has about 1GB total and it's definitely cobbled from chips that failed QC. 100%. Nothing on those cards is "stock" or default. Not a thing. Not the board, caps, chips or connectors.

9:05 BEAVIS AND BUTTHEAD!

Should of tested it in Linux and see what Linux has to say about it

Thank you guys! You saved me from buying this scam!

So Caradog's real name is Hugh, eh? lol

Lol, that's frickin amazing

VGA = < 9 series

Interesting...

Sketchy , great American slang.

they are just old gtx cards with hacked bios, no 1060's or modern gpu's have a vga out plus really crappy build quality

Old gpu are cheaper. More like a junk it and that's were they get this parts they use and repurpose

Linus had a different card but you made youre point China stuff is rubbish but sometimes you find an actually good product. The point is you're don't know when that is going to be it's just a gamble....

Why are you talking to your wall? and why is it talking back? Joking aside !i bought over 40 items from AliExpress and a lot of them were expensive and I've never been ripped off.

Naff , great British slang.

What about the 6gb version

The GTS450 is a well known GPU that these chinese manufacturers like to use because they support GDDR5 and can be forced to run DX12. But, 192 cuda cores aren't going to run any new AAA games. All 10 series Pascal GPU's are fabbed at TSMC using a 16nm die. Well all except the GTX 1050/ti which are actually fabbed at Samsung using a 14nm die. I have a ASUS dual GTX 1050ti without any 6 or 8pin power connector's. Regardless this GPU can still run at a solid 2GHz flat out amd quiet as can be. With nVIDIA's game ready drivers games like Metro Exodus at 60fps high settings just using a 3770K at 4.5GHz. Not to shabby for a entry level Pascal GPU. I have a ZALMAN CNPS 9900MAX cooling a 5GHz 8700K... I ordered a few other models like the 9900MAX DF (dual fan) version to see what they could do with some if intel's newer sku's.

its not Pascal.

Who did you buy this from

Haha now this is so hilarious lmao

ZEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

I felt exactly the same when I saw a huge market of fake watches like Rolex, Omega, FranchMuller. It was 2000 to 2005, I visited Sinzen area.Approx 20dollers a piece and you can't tell it's fake by the looks of it. They made all effort to duplicate fine details. But they all runs several minutes faster or slower every day! After all those great effort to make it simillar, why would'nt they just throw in cheapest Japanese movement that does'nt cost much? Only the reason I could think of was that they have pride in making FAKE. If it works proprly and looks right it aint fake any more... hahaha I really want to know the truth, even now.