English cards vs Chinease Cards

[oakes88]

Just woundering if there would be any implication to buying a Graphics card from china as i have a friend over there at the moment and just needed to know if there would be any problems with it being installed into a english system

 

[COLGeek]

Should work just fine. The GPU speaks "driver" so the English vs. Chinese aspect should be irrelevant.

 

[rgd1101]

probably no warranty

 

[Eximo]

There are a lot of fakes in China and India (most of Asia really) Where they market GPUs as one thing, but a close reading of the stats show they are not exactly what they claim. Some are just bold faced lies with the stats of one card pasted onto another. Or they will be cast off cripple GPUs that they can load the BIOS of faster cards onto, so like 1/4 or half of a working GTX770. (They love to show GPU-Z screenshots, to prove it is the real thing) Normally these would be sold as re-branded lesser products. You'll see OEMs in the US sell things like GTX745 which are quite similar, but at least they make a distinction.

Though Alienware was marketing some 3/4 cripple GTX760 as the full thing. 1.5GB of memory and a 192bit bus instead of the expected 256bit w/ 2GB.

 

[oakes88]

so in a way it bad bad idea to get one , as there is no garentee that itss be the proper thing ? , didnt think of warranty lol