Beware of the dwarf… and the cheap video card as well!
For those of us who had a floppy drive in kindergarten, the 1024 round number, and we often confuse our house number with our IP address, it is quite obvious that the GeForce GTX 1060 is an unrealistic purchase for 30 forints.
But beyond all doubt, not everyone gets up and lies with computer technology, and then let’s be honest; one of the pillars of really good catches is that the seller is not fully aware of the parameters of the given product and greatly underestimates its value. So there are still miracles, just considering the laws of mathematics, there is usually very little chance of that, yet I opened the ad below on Goodness. Well, there were some interesting things.
This is how the story started - of course, we intentionally withheld the sender's details.
After a translation from Hungarian to Hungarian, it turns out that the seller "received" the GeForce GTX 1060 card from abroad, which he has not seen before, and the same is true for the warranty. Otherwise, “everything” is the usual; the advertiser's name and telephone number, pictures of the product. Speaking of pictures. The box is a real treat for the open eye, in the absence of a practically accurate name, it is completely universal, and then we didn’t even talk about the back. We scored what you saw there, hold on!
- 350 watts
- 300 MB
- 2 GB
- PCI-E x16
- CD-ROM / DVD-ROM
- Microsoft Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 10
Pictures of the product in question:
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Even so, you need this, purposefully, just nothing unnecessary tug of war! You could even say that the “unisex” box was a revolutionary pull in terms of cost effectiveness. Let’s say it’s a bit of a mystery what the other two “data” would mean (presumably refer to storage and memory) in addition to the recommended power supply, but at least Windows XP is also supported - it’s very useful, but it is very useful! The image quality is not very good, but almost all games can be silabized based on the images:
- Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (October 2013, 29)
- Splinter Cell Blacklist (August 2013, 20)
- Watch Dogs (May 2014, 27)
- Batman: Arkham Origins (October 2013, 25)
Quite up to date list…
Well, let's just see what we're up against. The offer is quite plentiful, one thing is for sure, it won’t be the GeForce GTX 1060, even if it’s on the “ID” on the back - it’s another matter that this part number in this form is completely frivolous. The fridge has been around for a long time, and a few seconds later the TechPowerUp forum became relevant. There, he thought he was the happy owner of a GeForce GTX 750 Ti, but not a few squeaks were revealed.
The stuff is slow at first, and the GPU-Z reads quite unusual data. A few entries later, it turned out the card was a GeForce GTS 450 (the GF116 chip provided pretty clear evidence), and so the BIOS was already right - another customer reported it, but he also went that route. So based on what you've seen, it's likely that instead of the great GTX 1060, we could buy some ancient knight, maybe just this:
It will be good to take care of the first seemingly favorable offers, as miners all over the world have a serious shortage of more grumpy video cards - you can buy a GeForce GT 710 with a dozen, of course - if you take a risk, you can easily run into such a slight product. At the moment, we can suggest a wait, or a mining-spared graphics card (GeForce GTX 1050 / Ti, Radeon RX 560), but ultimately the console can also be a cure for player problems.
The ad has since been removed from Goodwill!
