I got an unusual GTX 560 Ti

[Panormitis]

Time for some photos!

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.


Front connectors: DVI, HDMI, VGA.


Only one 6-pin power supply connector.


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.



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!

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.


A closer look of the back of the cooler.


The RAM chips are Hynix, H5RS1H23MFR-N0C.


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.

[TysonM]

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

[Panormitis]

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

[Boulard83]

9600gt


9500gt


GTS250

[Panormitis]

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:

55nm G94b (G94-300-B1):

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.

[Boulard83]

I found alot of palit card with very similar PCB.

[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.

[Panormitis]

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.

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.

[Ket]

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

[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.

[Panormitis]

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.

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.

[Ket]

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.