News Gamer receives free RTX 3060 GPU from Temu — user waits for other PC parts to arrive to see if the GPU is real

[Admin]

A Reddit user has purportedly won a free RTX 3060 from Temu. The evidence points toward this card being a real deal, not a fake one.

Gamer receives free RTX 3060 GPU from Temu — user waits for other PC parts to arrive to see if the GPU is real : Read more

 

[the original dotto]

A Reddit user has purportedly won a free RTX 3060 from Temu. The evidence points toward this card being a real deal, not a fake one.

Gamer receives free RTX 3060 GPU from Temu — user waits for other PC parts to arrive to see if the GPU is real : Read more

This is exactly the kind on "news" that could wait for confirmation rather than posting to incite speculation. Is this a "why you can trust Tom's" reviewer that doesn't have a PC to plug a card into? admin, keep up practicing your writing but you don't have to post omniscient musing. Looking for something real, ty .

 

[Syntaximus]

Temu are dirt merchants, same as Ali Express, and not to be trusted.

 

[DingusDog]

A free GPU that you "won" from an ad. Yeah I wouldn't put that in my rig.

 

[USAFRet]

Temu is a junk merchant, with a deservedly bad rep.

But the cost of a single medium grade GPU is a cheap price to pay for a bit of good advertising.

 

[the original dotto]

A free GPU that you "won" from an ad. Yeah I wouldn't put that in my rig.

Then would you put it in the rest of the rig that you paid for? I'm not defending Temu in any way. Only maybe if speculation is the standard, then I'm good at fiction and maybe... does Tom's have openings?

 

[the original dotto]

This is exactly the kind on "news" that could wait for confirmation rather than posting to incite speculation. Is this a "why you can trust Tom's" reviewer that doesn't have a PC to plug a card into? admin, keep up practicing your writing but you don't have to post omniscient musing. Looking for something real, ty .

😂 I'm just saying that this was too soon after all the pre-election "news" for my taste. I'm okay with differing opinions. But I wouldn't put a 4060 straight from Nvidia into my PC. For free, I'm might put it in my SO's. How about this: A sanitation worker found... No wait, that one's been done. Maybe "A guy found a listings for a Corvette for $250 USD and it was perfect" ... I don't want to turn to Entertainment Tonight for my tech news, right?

 

[USAFRet]

But I wouldn't put a 4060 straight from Nvidia into my PC.

Why not?

 

[dalauder]

Temu are dirt merchants, same as Ali Express, and not to be trusted.

You say that like Walmart and Amazon have reliable products. Often times, Temu and Ali Express have the exact same products that are imported to sell on Amazon or eBay at higher prices.

That said...I only buy cheap stuff from them. Temu's costume jewelry is fantastic.

 

[dalauder]

A free GPU that you "won" from an ad. Yeah I wouldn't put that in my rig.

Don't you have an old spare rig that you can put stuff in, disconnected from Internet?

You could also always flash a generic RTX 4060 bios onto it, or the Palit bios.

 

[circadia]

Temu are dirt merchants, same as Ali Express, and not to be trusted.

meh, AliExpress has been pretty trustworthy in a while, especially for freaky stuff like mobile CPUs glued onto a desktop socket adapter, or mobile GPUs soldered on a desktop GPU board, etc.

 

[P.Amini]

Fake graphics card for fake news.

 

[stephensfone]

I bought an MLLSE branded RX6600M from AliExpress just over a year ago for €151 (seem to be over €200 now) and it's been brilliant!
It uses the mobile variant of the GPU which is almost as powerful as the desktop version but with a lot less power and heat.
It was also recognised as a genuine AMD chip and uses the regular drivers.

 

[Deegamer88]

Temu and Ali express aren't the best but have definitely got better the last couple years and most gpus r usually whats advertised but may be a used mining card or a mobile variant. The mobile variants from AMD work great and use AMD drivers from there site but Nvidia locks down there mobile variants so Chinese GPU makers send a disk with a driver that may allow it 2 work but also may put malware in the driver and no updates unless u search for some online from 3rd party but not a guarantee 2 find 1so if the 3060 came with driver cd or website 2 download 1 from its fake or a mobile 3060

 

[USAFRet]

Temu and Ali express aren't the best but have definitely got better the last couple years and most gpus r usually whats advertised but may be a used mining card or a mobile variant. The mobile variants from AMD work great and use AMD drivers from there site but Nvidia locks down there mobile variants so Chinese GPU makers send a disk with a driver that may allow it 2 work but also may put malware in the driver and no updates unless u search for some online from 3rd party but not a guarantee 2 find 1so if the 3060 came with driver cd or website 2 download 1 from its fake or a mobile 3060

Thats not instilling a lot of confidence to buy from there.

 

[Deegamer88]

Most posts tell u if it a mobile variant or not or just go AMD and no worries but u get what u pay 4 it's not worth saving $100+ for a mobile AMD card and get similar performance and the work they do is good or u could buy used of eBay and it's not taken apart cleaned new thermal paste and no idea what it's been through

 

[Deegamer88]

Especially if your on a budget u can get an rx580 for less than $50 or gtx 1060 for a little more but no reason 2 risk it on a new GPU if u got the cash

 

[circadia]

Thats not instilling a lot of confidence to buy from there.

I think there is an open-source driver for those mobile-turned-into-desktop Nvidia GPUs, though.
link: https://github.com/arutar/FrankenDriver