Gigabyte Sells HD 5670 512 MB HyperMemory Card as 1 GB

[morphy]

Where I ding Gigabyte is for not indicating the actual onboard mem anywhere on the box.
There won't be any fuss if Gigabyte had just included that on the box itself. The fact that they didn't and listed only the HM is dubious. Something like "HM to 1GB (512Mb GDDR5 on-board)" works...alot of other makers use that terminology on specing their box.

It's like buying a new processor and all it lists on the box is it's overclocking headroom ie. OC to 4.7GHz!!. What about the stock speed? It could be 2Ghz for all I know. Sure I can look it up on the web but I also want confirmation from this particular box what I am buying.

 

[Kreij]

Gigabyte Marketing Personnel + Swords + Fall on = Restored family honor.

It's the only way. Nothing less will suffice.

 

[RadeonProVega]

If a box reads 1gb, well that is what you should get, simple as that. The box should of read, 512mb of dddr5 memory.

 

[mlee49]

gpu-z bug

Update title/post 1?

 

[loroloco]

I wouldn't let this make me not to buy a Gigabyte product anymore, i own some of them and i can say they are very good products, but they should've specified much better the actual amount of memory you're getting, like others said, 512 MB up to 1 GB, not everyone knows what hypermemory means, besides people doesn't always research for hours which card to buy, some just go to the store and ask for a video card with a certain amount of memory (a lot of people do that thinking the more memory it has the better whitout considering the gpu) and buy this one, probably they will never notice it wasn't 1 GB, they don't even know what gpu-z is or how to check the video card installed (not making fun of them but it's true).

 

[_JP_]

It's like buying a new processor and all it lists on the box is it's overclocking headroom ie. OC to 4.7GHz!!. What about the stock speed? It could be 2Ghz for all I know. Sure I can look it up on the web but I also want confirmation from this particular box what I am buying.

I'm guessing you didn't buy AMD Athlon (XP, 64/FX) processors because of that.

 

[OneCool]

shame shame

 

[D4S4]

and my friends ask me why i despise anything asus/gigabyte :shadedshu

 

[a_ump]

I guess everyone missed the GPU-Z bug part by w1z

 

[masterbw2000]

Thanks to the barcode scanner on smart phone (Android or iPhone).

EAN 13:
4719331330156

SN:
103151123902

By the way, this box is sold in Taiwan so no way they gonna do this to themselves in the US (suicide mission?).

It's more like someone tries to hit on Gigabyte, LOL.

 

[OnBoard]

Uf, not nice, even if I have lots of Gigabyte and have nothing bad to say.

(not that it really matters what amount of memory that card has, it will be too weak to use 1GB of memory to have playable fps)

 

[Zubasa]

Reminds me of a certain Geforce 6-series card. :shadedshu

 

[wolf]

Reminds me of a certain Geforce 6-series card. :shadedshu

was that the 6200 TC scandal? I might be mistaken...

 

[Zubasa]

was that the 6200 TC scandal? I might be mistaken...

Indeed.
So not surprised at all with Gigabyte's VGA department.
This is very unprofessional to say the least.

 

[qwerty_lesh]

As for the sticker over the refrence board print, that is really quite normal, and I find that this article tries to portray that action as deceptive.

I have got some G41MT-D3 boards ATM, they have the same sticker over the printed model (on pcb) which would have printed on it G41MT-S3, now the difference is only that the D3 has all solid capacitors, but Im not going to kick and scream about this board having that sticker and GB trying to deceive me into having a better model am I? (or anyone else for that matter)

Sure thats not the main issue here which is the memory labeling, which I totally agree it is very misleading. But the sticker over the REFRENCE PCB PRINT, is perfectly normal.

No one cares or would ever mention it when labellings over a lower end model for higher end products (as in, same PCB different surface mounted parts) is done (which is done here its just the 'improvement' is not much of a physical change, maybe a rail or bus or something and altered firmware)


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tl;dr, labeling over the PCB printed model is perfectly normal, its often done when higher end parts use the same board and different SMD parts. to make out it was deceptive is wrong, but everything else about the actual product art and memory related reporting I agree with.

 

[btarunr]

I guess everyone missed the GPU-Z bug part by w1z

About the ROP count? Does that affect anything?

 

[azzonie]

People are defending this practice of misleading labels? Amazing.

 

[caleb]

lol How can a label be misleading ? It gives you product number and that's it. Ill bet you can find a lot of labels that can be read "correctly".
Some people here would read "2.0
Turbo" as a biturbo engine and would ask for a car replacement because they only got a single turbo charger instead of 2.

Reading labels and boxes like this and saying its a marketing plot is really making something big out of nothing.
When (company name removed) sells you a router claiming its usb 2.0 in its spec's and you get 900kb/s transfer from it - that's marketing crap but hey lets bash gigabyte for writing DDR5 in a wrong place on a box and hail bravo to some guy can't read cards specs before buying.

If cards specs would be similar to what the label on the box says then yeah gigabyte would be an ass and you could say that's misleading info but their product page says 512MB. end of story.

 

[wahdangun]

lol How can a label be misleading ? It gives you product number and that's it. Ill bet you can find a lot of labels that can be read "correctly".
Some people here would read "2.0
Turbo" as a biturbo engine and would ask for a car replacement because they only got a single turbo charger instead of 2.

Reading labels and boxes like this and saying its a marketing plot is really making something big out of nothing.
When (company name removed) sells you a router claiming its usb 2.0 in its spec's and you get 900kb/s transfer from it - that's marketing crap but hey lets bash gigabyte for writing DDR5 in a wrong place on a box and hail bravo to some guy can't read cards specs before buying.

If cards specs would be similar to what the label on the box says then yeah gigabyte would be an ass and you could say that's misleading info but their product page says 512MB. end of story.

wew, what about people that doesn't have internet access, why you defend this scam ?

and please don't be douche, not everyone is computer illiterate you know.


shame on gigabyte, i'm lucky never buy their product, and i think i will not buy it ever

 

[pantherx12]

lol How can a label be misleading ? It gives you product number and that's it. Ill bet you can find a lot of labels that can be read "correctly".
Some people here would read "2.0
Turbo" as a biturbo engine and would ask for a car replacement because they only got a single turbo charger instead of 2.

Reading labels and boxes like this and saying its a marketing plot is really making something big out of nothing.
When (company name removed) sells you a router claiming its usb 2.0 in its spec's and you get 900kb/s transfer from it - that's marketing crap but hey lets bash gigabyte for writing DDR5 in a wrong place on a box and hail bravo to some guy can't read cards specs before buying.

If cards specs would be similar to what the label on the box says then yeah gigabyte would be an ass and you could say that's misleading info but their product page says 512MB. end of story.

I hope you get conned by someone just so they can turn around and say similar things to you " Marketing ploy, you fell for it"

I'm joking of course but you really should get some damn empathy

 

[nkhs9412235]

There is not only VGA card but also motherboard some error.

Someone bought the motherboard which says to support the 140W CPU,but it says not to support 140W CPU on the offical website.

 

[caleb]

Don't forget the 2000 3dmark points

 

[W1zzard]

clarified "gpu-z bug" to "the number of rops being read as 16 is a gpu-z bug "

 

[wolf]

any idea which version that will be fixed in W1zzard? the Madison core (mobile redwood) in my laptop still showing 16 too.

 

[map01ch]

I never liked Gigabytes marketing practices, because they tend to advertise everything but only half of it is true. So i'm not buying their stuff anymore even though i had ok experience with their Radeon 9600 Pro in the past.

Have bought their mobo with Xpress Recovery function just to find out it doesn't even work in SATA mode. They of course don't mention that anywhere on their webpage. And i was familiar with it in the IDE days and was a pretty cool feature.

BIOS Recovery. Same thing. They advertise it, but they don't explain it anywhere how to use it.
When i had problems with corrupted BIOS, i couldn't recover it because i knew there is some Dual BIOS super duper recovery but it wasn't explained anywhere. Not even in the manual! Thank god the store replaced it directly for me.

And i could go on and on with their crap. So i'm not really surprised what they did here.

Mate, I was reading some articles online and found the following info, you guys might be interested in to know bit more about Giga. I think this is not the first time that Giga made this kinds of "mistake". It seems that they keep making this "mistake" to mislead people for years. Next time we need to be more careful when purchasing Giga's products and I am losing the confidence on Giga now.

Source link: http://www.mobile01.com/topicdetail.php?f=488&t=1731404&last=22052843 (Please use google translate)

The mainboard is called, MA785G-UD3H and it says it supports 140W CPU on the box, but according to Giga's official site, it says this mainboard does not support 140W.

http://www.gigabyte.com/support-downloads/cpu-support-popup.aspx?pid=3138

Since BIOS version is N/A on 140W part

How will you feel if you purchased this mainboard with a 140W CPU after knowing it will not work !? Anyway.......