kave__ :
Can u pls tell what driver I have 2 use with this card ? I broke the driver cd comes with it and I cant find the driver anywhere. (As it is a fake card )
(In sellers page there is a Upzone link of a 630 driver, but a broken file )any suggestions?
An old thread I know, but just posting this for anyone else who might try to buy one of these cheap cards.
These cards are fake and coolboy951 is obviously a shill by the chinese company making and selling these things. The particular card I got had the shader count and clock speeds (the things not able to be disguised by the modded bios these have) of a 9800gt. and also use gddr3, which no real 650 ti in existence does. The fact it uses pci-e 1.1 instead of 3.0 like all real 650's do is also telling.
The card also benchmarked similarly to a 9800gt.
**edit** googling the bios version number of my particular card also came up as it being to an EVGA 9800gt.
In regards to drivers. You have two options. Both start the same. First you need to identify what the card actually is since these fakes can be anything from 9xxx cards to 4xx's. One way is with gpu-z and look for the bios version then google it, since usually the scammers don't bother changing this so it should still match the version number for the correct card. Otherwise you just have to go by shader count and try to match it up to something
Once you know what you actually have, the first option is to download the latest drivers for that card, decompress them, and edit the .ini file to add your fake card to the list pointing to the proper drivers.
The second option, which is more dangerous, but actually better in the long run if you can manage it without bricking the card, is to attempt to reflash the card with an actual bios for what the card really is.