News - Fake Nvidia GeForce GTX 660 cards sold by German retailers

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What you get is a GeForce GT 440 with modified video BIOS information.

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Wow, that's quite something. Someone in China laughing all the way to the bank........

Typical China. Counterfiet capital of the world.

Point of View (PoV) doesn't seem all that innocent, if you read the original articles on Heise.de.

http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/Gefaelschte-Grafikkarten-Die-Spur-fuehrt-zu-Point-of-View-2303308.html

http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/Dubiose-GTX-660-Karten-im-Ausland-unter-Point-of-View-gelistet-2303897.html

Kosatec can document having received those shipments from PoV and apparently now fake cards have turned up under the PoV label as well. It's possible that PoV has been duped itself, but it's certainly not the "completely innocent" party it makes out to be.

There was a fake GTX 660 up on Amazon, from China, months back. That stayed there a while, poor sods that gave the review seemed miffed off.

Then there's the tablet issue arising in China. Sorry but you can see why we are weary to buy things from there.

Definitely dodgy, they must have paid a baboon to put the Thermal Paste on with a catapult !