Hello friends;
I think I may have purchased a fake 2nd hand Geforce GTX 1050 video card.
I was looking for one to run GPUGRID work units: The Pascal cards can do that very well.
So I found this no-name GTX 1050 2nd hand for 50 Euro, thinking that that was a good bargain.
And then the problems started:
To test it, I replaced my own Gigabyte GTX 1050 with this one.
The pc booted, and the video card BIOS clearly shows "Geforce GTX 1050", but I was surprised to see the GPU BIOS appear before the motherboards' BIOS. My Gigabyte card shows no BIOS screen at startup.
In Windows, I could only choose low resolutions like 1024x768 and a few others, but no FULLHD 1080p let alone higher.
The Windows Device Manager showed a "GTX 1050" but with errors, stating that it was "not fully installed".
So I tried to install the latest drivers from NVidia, and got a Windows Blue Screen.
Then I uninstalled the driver, and installed an older driver version from several years ago, and that worked:
Suddenly I could get 1080p resolution.
And both HWMonitor and the Windows Device Manager now show a "GTX 1050".
But when I launch a game (XCOM 2), I get very poor performance: say 20-25 fps at best in 1080p medium settings.
That is about half the performance of my Gigabyte GTX 1050.
So, I decided to remove the cooler and try to recognise the GPU visually.
I am having difficulty finding the code which is on the GPU though. Luckily the RAM modules are genuine SK Hynix GDDR5 units.
I will try to upload some photos, but here is the text on the GPU:
NVIDIA
12B5B610 1121A1
S Taiwan
PAH252.M00 (or MOO)
Can anyone recognise this GPU?
Any help is greatly appraciated.
Have a nice day, and thanks in advance;
Carl Philip
I think I may have purchased a fake 2nd hand Geforce GTX 1050 video card.
I was looking for one to run GPUGRID work units: The Pascal cards can do that very well.
So I found this no-name GTX 1050 2nd hand for 50 Euro, thinking that that was a good bargain.
And then the problems started:
To test it, I replaced my own Gigabyte GTX 1050 with this one.
The pc booted, and the video card BIOS clearly shows "Geforce GTX 1050", but I was surprised to see the GPU BIOS appear before the motherboards' BIOS. My Gigabyte card shows no BIOS screen at startup.
In Windows, I could only choose low resolutions like 1024x768 and a few others, but no FULLHD 1080p let alone higher.
The Windows Device Manager showed a "GTX 1050" but with errors, stating that it was "not fully installed".
So I tried to install the latest drivers from NVidia, and got a Windows Blue Screen.
Then I uninstalled the driver, and installed an older driver version from several years ago, and that worked:
Suddenly I could get 1080p resolution.
And both HWMonitor and the Windows Device Manager now show a "GTX 1050".
But when I launch a game (XCOM 2), I get very poor performance: say 20-25 fps at best in 1080p medium settings.
That is about half the performance of my Gigabyte GTX 1050.
So, I decided to remove the cooler and try to recognise the GPU visually.
I am having difficulty finding the code which is on the GPU though. Luckily the RAM modules are genuine SK Hynix GDDR5 units.
I will try to upload some photos, but here is the text on the GPU:
NVIDIA
12B5B610 1121A1
S Taiwan
PAH252.M00 (or MOO)
Can anyone recognise this GPU?
Any help is greatly appraciated.
Have a nice day, and thanks in advance;
Carl Philip