I got an unusual GTX 560 Ti

Time for some photos!
http://img694.imageshack.us/img694/7977/fansa.jpg
This is the card.
Since my motherboard has only PCI-E x8 slots, I had put a PCI-E x8 to x16 adaptor/riser. It wasn't necessary to remove it from the card, so I left it there.

http://img854.imageshack.us/img854/6714/portsbh.jpg
Front connectors: DVI, HDMI, VGA.

http://img145.imageshack.us/img145/5310/backmh.jpg
Only one 6-pin power supply connector.

http://img824.imageshack.us/img824/3500/backpcbl.jpg
Back of the PCB. The cooler is secured with only 4 screws around the GPU. By the way, I think the HDMI connector is just for show, I don't see any traces for it on the PCB. I connected a monitor with an HDMI cable to check, and it didn't work. Only the DVI & VGA connectors work.
Let's see some more angles.

http://img402.imageshack.us/img402/4341/downgm.jpg
http://img138.imageshack.us/img138/8338/topdf.jpg
The cooler/heatsink is attached only on the GPU, the ram chips and everything else have no heatsink at all. I hope the air from the fans can cool them sufficiently.
As you can see the fans are wired together, they used heat-shrink tubes to cover the wires. I don't like how it looks, seems unprofessional.

Finally! Let's remove the cooler!
http://img208.imageshack.us/img208/9...dandcooler.jpg
Some grey thermal paste was used, the heatsink was attached only on the GPU, everything else had no heatsink at all. I wonder if the card can survive like that. Well, I guess I won't be using my Phobya thermal pads after all.

http://img19.imageshack.us/img19/1029/coolerback.jpg
A closer look of the back of the cooler.

http://img209.imageshack.us/img209/5532/rams.jpg
The RAM chips are Hynix, H5RS1H23MFR-N0C.

http://img855.imageshack.us/img855/4092/gpuo.jpg
And last but not least, the GPU!
It has the following written on it:
NVIDIA
39N3FA 0839B1
A TAIWAN
PB0920.03V

What kind of GPU is this? Does anybody know?

The cloth I used to clean the GPU was terrible, definitely not lint-free. I cleaned it up better afterwards.
For now, I have reattached the cooler and put the card back in the pc (this is the only card I currently have, for it).
The idle temperature with the stock thermal paste was 53 Celsius, and now with the Arctic Ceramique 2 is 50 Celsius, not a very big difference, I guess the stock thermal paste wasn't very bad.

Definitely not a 560 Ti GPU, but you knew that. Looks like a 9600 GT or similar to me...

Couldn't get any info from the markings themselves...

Take a look at this link for a picture showing the exact same setup, so its a 9600 GT I'd say.

http://www.pcstats.com/articleview.c...id=2253&page=2

You're probably right, the core seems to be a G94 variant.

9600gt
http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/V...images/gpu.jpg

9500gt
http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/G...images/gpu.jpg

GTS250
http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/P...images/gpu.jpg

If I'm not mistaken, it's a 55nm G94b
This card has one that looks identical: http://xtreview.com/addcomment-id-60...55NM-G94b.html

The GPU core on my card: http://img855.imageshack.us/img855/4092/gpuo.jpg

55nm G94b (G94-300-B1): http://xtreview.com/images/GeForce%2...055nm%2003.jpg

The same core is used for GeForce 9600 GT & GeForce GT 130 cards.
It can also be found on ebay if you search for G94-300-B1.

I found alot of palit card with very similar PCB.

http://www.techpowerup.com/img/09-02-14/1a.jpg

Whoa that is certainly not a 560 Ti, I'd say its a 9500 or 9600 GPU of some sort without researching it thoroughly. OC the crap out of that card and it'll make a decent physics cruncher, but thats about it.

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Originally Posted by Ket

Whoa that is certainly not a 560 Ti, I'd say its a 9500 or 9600 GPU of some sort without researching it thoroughly. OC the crap out of that card and it'll make a decent physics cruncher, but thats about it.

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Yeah, it's a 9600, I have replaced the card with a Radeon 7850 (HIS 7850 IceQ X 2GB). The fake card still works, I kept it as a spare.

Good move :up: Up to 1680 and 1920 resolutions a OC'd 2GB 7850 packs a decent punch still.

Wow dirty rat bastards! You should submit a complaint:
https://login.aliexpress.com/buyer.h...laint/home.htm

At the least It may help this from happening to others.

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Originally Posted by CrazyNutz

Wow dirty rat bastards! You should submit a complaint:
https://login.aliexpress.com/buyer.h...laint/home.htm

At the least It may help this from happening to others.

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I thought about it when I found out the card was fake, but actually a "Product not as described" complaint can't be submitted without opening a dispute.
This will involve sending the card back, paying for postage, dealing with the seller again, etc.
Seems too troublesome, and I don't think it's going change anything. The seller seems to be selling fake cards for quite some time (he/she has over 700 transactions) and still doing it. Aliexpress probably doesn't care.

What you might of got is a OEM card, OEMs are dirty bastards sometimes, they sell re-branded crap to get rid of old stock.