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This is a GECUBE 9550 AGP card.
Many people found the memory on the card had be remark.
All you can see in this picture...

This Very Carzy !! Oh my god¡I¡I

http://www.pcdvd.com.tw/showthread [...] ge=1&pp=10

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sigh.....this is a false alarm...

the truth is Triplex is the one doing re-mark memory on their 9550 AGP base on this thread

<A HREF="http://www.pcdvd.com.tw/showthread.php?t=426946" target="_new">http://www.pcdvd.com.tw/showthread.php?t=426946</A>

The GPU maker claims that their product is equipped with Samsung TC40 memory chip so users assume they can overclock the GPU easily to 250mHz memory clock. However, one of the user added a GPU heat sink trying to over clock the memory to 250mHz but found out that his 9550 memory was clocked at 166mHz by default instead of ATI 9550's standard 200mHz. He thought it was a faulty video card so he removed the HS and hoping to do a RMA and strange thing happened....

the paint on the memory chip pilled off and showed a VDATA RAM.

after the first post, people been checking their Trilex 9550 clock speed, and more and more have confirmed that their 9550 memory is only clocked at 166mHz and a few posted more pictures.

so basically there's a big fight going on right now. And people probably working for Trilex is trying to defend their brand by registering multiple id's to try misdirect and crap.

last thread of this
http://www.pcdvd.com.tw/showthread [...] ge=1&pp=10
are the forum masters saying they're going to lock that thread as an evidence for further investigation because all the different posters accusing that GECUBE remarks their memory are from THE SAME IP.
(which is pretty dumb IMO lol)

So. In conclusion, just check your GPU and see if yours is at the right speed. After all, 80% of computer products are made in you-know-where
and this is a crazy world ruled by $$

Easter is coming....Edited by Silly_Rabbit on 12/31/04 04:52 PM.

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Silly_Rabbit, GPU stands for the chip, not the card. nVidia calls the graphics chip a GPU (Graphics Processing Unit) and ATI calls it a VPU (Visual Processing Unit). The card itself is a PCB (Printed Circuit Board).

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Thanks for the lecture heh...
I just pretty much translate most of them straight from Chinese and fill in the blanks with my very poor computer terms.

still got a lot to learn there =P

Easter is near....Edited by Silly_Rabbit on 01/01/05 00:56 AM.

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Hmmm, I just found this thread when wonder if people outside Taiwan know about this.
This news about "Dark-hearted display card" (translated from Chinese, you get the idea) was seen on local TV today, and is expected to have more reports about it.
The company which was accused in the first post, GeCube, has an annoucement on their homepage:
<A HREF="http://www.gecube.com/mbu/mediaRoom.php" target="_new">http://www.gecube.com/mbu/mediaRoom.php</A>
For people who are curious about this news, here's some additional information: (Are there any Triplex users outside Taiwan, I wonder?)
The product that was found to have remarked RAM so far includes ATi 9550 and Nvidia GeForce FX 5200 from Triplex. The RAM was marked as Samsung -4, and is actually VDATA -6.
The key of this event is the underclocked BIOS. If Triplex do not know about the remarked RAM, they have no reason to underclock the BIOS to 166MHz, for the RAM is marked as -4 ns and should be working at 200MHz (the ATi case). Any user-performed benchmark will reveal this.
It is reasonable to speculate that the Triplex either knows the RAM is actually -6, and do not ask the upstream for replacement but sell these products with underclocked BIOS instead, or they remark the RAM themselves.
Triplex has unofficially announced that they are victims to remarked RAM too, and offer replacement for remarked products. They said that they bought these RAM from a mainland China upstream. They didn't said anything about the underclocked BIOS.
So far we have no words from VDATA yet, and Samsung Taiwan announced in the report that they "are concerned about this event, and the Korean Headquarter is considering international law actions on this".
An agent of the Consumer Protection Commission (goverment organization) said on the TV that "The manufacturer do have responsibilities on this, and they may have already contravene the Consumer Protection Law, Trademark Law and Copyright Law. We will conduct investigation on this."Edited by MichaelChen on 01/04/05 04:17 PM.

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