Got new graphics card for absurdly cheap and wondering if fake

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galatyspero

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So recently i bought a Nvidia gtx 1060 3gb off of the wish app for 75$. To good to be true and when it arrived i was suprised to see that the card seemed to be a nvidia gtx 1060 3gb so i hooked it up and nvdia geforce even recognised it and updated it to newest driver but whenever i run games or a benchmark it runs terribly and so my question

Can nvidia geforce be tricked into thinking its a diffrent card. Becauwe nvidia geforce says its the card i bought but the card runs terribly.



 
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volkgren
What brand was the GPU? I know it's possible for them to fake it to read as a different GPU in GPU-Z, so I don't see why it wouldn't' work with GeForce as well.

*With GPU-Z you can see the CUDA core count (shader count). But then again, some GTX 760 have the same cuda core count and same bus width and 3GB.
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volkgren

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What brand was the GPU? I know it's possible for them to fake it to read as a different GPU in GPU-Z, so I don't see why it wouldn't' work with GeForce as well.

*With GPU-Z you can see the CUDA core count (shader count). But then again, some GTX 760 have the same cuda core count and same bus width and 3GB.
 
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dontlistentome

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They can repackage an old 5xx series and fiddle with the bios, so yes it's possible(likely) that's what you got. Another clue would be if it doesn't have a brand name on it, like EVGA or similar. There are any number of utilities you can run that tell you how many CUDA cores it has, what the core clockspeed is, what the memory speed is...all these things will clue you in to what it really is.
 
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