News - Counterfeit GECUBE HD4000 cards appear

[HEXUS]

GECUBE issues a statement acknowledging the problem and advising how to identify the genuine article.

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[MadduckUK]

so many questions about this

[Biscuit]

A counterfeit graphics card, so do they just not work at all or like... yeah so many questions :/

[LuckyNV]

I could think of a billion other things more cheaper, easier, quicker, simpler to counterfit than GFX cards lol

[Animus404]

I expect its like the counterfeit games consoles that were being sold before Christmas.
The genuine article except they haven't been through quality control and have no warranty.

[Jay]

or have had their BIOS changed to report that they are a better card.

[alchemist118]

How the hell do they get hold of GPU's and Video RAM... do they even work ( goto give em some respect if they can reverse engineer a graphics card)

[DeSean]

How the hell do they get hold of GPU's and Video RAM... do they even work ( goto give em some respect if they can reverse engineer a graphics card)

I don't know for sure but it probably isn't like that. They will be made in the same factories as the "real" ones. They may have been stolen or "lost" before they made it to the AMD partners, or as mentioned above they might have failed certain tests and been swiped instead of binned.

[FoxdieUK]

Its probably the same factory selling the products out the back door to another disributer. I bet Gecube are having serious dicussions with the factory in question.

[MadduckUK]

wonder if they sell 4870x2's at favourable rates

[chrestomanci]

How the hell do they get hold of GPU's and Video RAM... do they even work ( goto give em some respect if they can reverse engineer a graphics card)

The counterfeit will be the authorized manufacturer making more than they are contracted to.

Gecube will have subcontracted the manufacture of these cards to a factory somewhere in China, and signed a contract with them to make a certain number (100,000 perhaps), The factory would have received all the blueprints they need, and would have sourced their own GPUs, RAM and other components direct from wholesalers or ATI.

Anyway, the factory management probably got greedy and decided to make more than they where asked to, and sell the surplus on the grey market, so yes the counterfeit cards probably work perfectly well, they just won't have any sort of waranty support. The mystery is why this factory decided to label the extra cards as Gecube, rather than make up their own brand name.

[MadduckUK]

i guess if they label them under a current name then they can just disappear, rather than a weird new brand appearing and people taking notice

[kalniel]

wonder if they sell 4870x2's at favourable rates

Of course, but if you open it up you discover it's only a single 4830

Remind you of this?

[MadduckUK]

Of course, but if you open it up you discover it's only a single 4830

Remind you of this?

i actually have one of those d-link wireless adapters. and let me tell you, even in that state i don't think it will perform a whole lot worse. was shocking.

and anyway, i wouldnt want one off ebay, that would be asking for it transaction in a secluded carpark is far safer