Thursday, January 8th 2009
GeCube Warns Against Counterfeit Graphics Cards
You read it. There are elements in Asia using the GeCube brand name to sell counterfeit graphics cards based on the ATI Radeon HD 4000 series graphics processors. Large inventories of counterfeit GeCube graphics cards have reportedly made it to the market and threten to dilute GeCube's market position and its image as a reputed AMD add-in board partner.
GeCube has released a few guidelines to help consumers spot these counterfeits and report them to the authorities. In the picture below, GeCube points out distict features found on genuine GeCube graphics cards that consumers should inspect at the time of purchase. A list of GeCube graphics cards certified by AMD can be found here. The press statement GeCube issued can be read here.
Sources:
Hexus.channel, GeCube
GeCube has released a few guidelines to help consumers spot these counterfeits and report them to the authorities. In the picture below, GeCube points out distict features found on genuine GeCube graphics cards that consumers should inspect at the time of purchase. A list of GeCube graphics cards certified by AMD can be found here. The press statement GeCube issued can be read here.
28 Comments on GeCube Warns Against Counterfeit Graphics Cards
sounds like an inside job to me......
U want funny tho, back in the day some of the counterfit cards where BETTER then the legit ones, mostly because dispite the caps being CHEAP they where better then the counterfits the namebrand companys got ahold of.
i would like to get one of those as a diy kit maybe with some SMD already in place but it would be fun to use your own caps and resistors to build one.
;-P good for Modding it may be with RGB out? for my htpc
seen that happen plenty of times with cloths from china, they treat it so that if it gets wet in the shiping container it wont mold.......
Edit: Never mind Gecube is a company so my sapphire can not be a counterfeit my mistake
sounds like you got your future planned. buy me a house when u can afford it.
On top of that. think of all the overhead costs. all the additional eletronic crap like, mem chips, transistors & mem chips. - even after all that you still need a box to put it in so u can sell it reguardless if the box is just a bank cardboard one or one thats doll'd up like the rest of the other brands. plan to market your product?? - more costs. to stand making any profit at all you'l need to hire personnel & floor space with the usual water, electricity & gas bills.
there is such things as building small business from your bedroom but this aint one of them.
Counterfeits are mostly/all funded by organised criminals, mobs/mafia/triads etc who are involved in all sorts of illegal trade like drugs and human trafficking, AMD must put heavy pressure on all their partners to stop this!
All major handheld consoles that run on cartridges - mainly the Nintendo Gameboy & supposedly DS can have the data inside the cartridges copied to another & sold on. but of course this is on a lower level compared to replicating a working graphics card....
how often have you bought counterfeit goods only to have them fall apart as soon as you get home??
counterfeiters arent gonna use expensive tech to build the cards - its all about making a profit. no matter how cheap it is - Id rather buy a brand that i know & trust over a brand that has just suddenly appeard on the market offering stupidly cheaper components.
I dunno how they manage to obtain half the stuff they used to build the card anyway
This is GeCube just trying to get some attention. Pure marketing propaganda.