Spotted A FAKE 8800gt!!

i headed over to one of the biggest computer markets in india here in mumbai.this place has almost everything the day its launched in the us/europe/south east asia.
i wanted to buy the 8800gt .one shop said he sold a couple of 8800gt cards made by galaxy(singaporean brand).i was looking for the xfx alpha dog 8800gt card.
most guys said the card hadn't shipped yet and would arrive only on thursday/friday this week.
i headed over to one shop and the guy said he could get me the card for 9200rs(230 US $). i asked him to show me the card.
he got some unbranded card with something scribbled in chinese on it.
the card was shorter in length than the standard cards,had no extra pci-e power connector,but the barcode stickers behind said it was a 8800gt 512mb
i took some snaps of it (sorry for the bad quality images-took it on my mobile-vga camera)
the guy @ the shop told me he sold 3 of these cards and a quite a lot of people were enquiring about the 8800gt.











the writing on the barcode isnt that clear (vga camera to be blamed)
but u can clearly make out the 8800gt on it and 512mb written beside it.

Thats most likely an 8400/8500 card if its a 8xxx series card at all... notice the small HSF and VGA outputs

is there any serial numbers on the PCB its self?

In anycase its defintally NOT an 8800gt

yep thats fake alright...
some low end card as you said, small heatsink, vga connector and no SLI connector nor extra power connector

He took the 8400GS out of his own system, switched the stickers, put the 8800GT back in his box and is now waiting for sucker v2.089345u to buy the relabled POS.

That's not even an 8000 series. Notice the fan. The Nvidia label's the old one, not the new icon they came out with last year.

My guess is 7300 or 7600 series.

-mcg

heh, once i was visiting family in India and found shoes labled "Reebaak". i fell on the floor laughing right there.

Man, that 8800gt looks totally legit, roflllllll lol

If the store own lets you take pictures of it, then it's either.
1. He's a victim also. Meaning he does not know if that is actually a real 8800GT card.
And some person who returned it swamped the labels.

2. He does not want to act suspicious so he's got no choice but to let you
take the snapshots.

If number 1 is true then I hope the baboon who did it get his card fried.

Gosh .. wonder how many he has sold..

That looks like a 7series...may be even a 6 series. Wow, who ever did this should be shot....for not concealing it enough!

Probably 7600GS. The things that popped to mind were some of the PCX FX-series cards, 6600s, 7600s or 8500s.

Man, that would be something to think you're getting an 8800gt, one of the best cards on the market, and instead get a 7200, one of the worst

yep! there's this place in south mumbai called lamington road--its a long street and buildings on both sides have shops which sell computer hardware/software.you've got warehouses and these supply parts to most of the other towns/cities in india.the thing is the prices here are almost identical and in some cases cheaper than what you guys pay for on newegg. example i got my dual core opteron 175 for 6000rs(about 150 US $) in april earlier this year.now its 154.99us $ on newegg but its something like 190 $ in april when i saw it.
you can also bargain--haggle the old fashioned way in a shop!! the basic price for any product is fixed on the basis of its demand and supply in the market.for example--some shop might sell you the seagate baracudda sata 2 harddrive-160gb for 2000rs(50 US $) some shop may sell it to you for 1900rs and somewhere you may get it for 2200rs.if you drop into a couple of shops before actually buying the harddrive - you can actually bargain -i got my seagate baracudda for 1900rs(47.5 US $--its 55$ on newegg)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lamington_Road