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Fake GPU's Caution!

Newegg is still a fantastic company. I've spent thousands buying from them and I will continue to do so. I've been a customer of theirs for well over 10 years now. Living close enough to use their will-call is a plus too. I never even look at what other vendors sell on Neweggs site. I click the Newegg only option.

So many stores do what Newegg is doing with the vendors. Sears, Amazon, etc...

Something is bound to slip through eventually.
 
xBruce88x said:
It's a knock-off of this card... http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814162117 Though Galaxy does make the fans easy to remove like that on some of their cards to make it easier to clean



yea i remember a lot of the 9700 and 9600s had a tiny cooler that looked like the one on my Abit NF7-S 2.0's chipset cooler...

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so i made sure to get this one from Sapphire, which they still have the newegg page for! in fact... that's the exact card i bought back when i actually owned my NF7-S :)

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http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814102600

I logged soooo many hours of starcraft, CS1.6, Half Life 2, CS:Source, Halo: CE, and FEAR on that thing. oh, and WarRock Beta.

and so this part of the post is related to the thread... that was back when newegg was good, very good. before they started changing their site layout and such.
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I loved my 9800pro later flashed to 9800XT. that thing was beast!!!! I replaced the stock cooler with a VGA silencer Rev.3
http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/ArcticCooling/VGASilencer_Rev3/
played quake3, BF, CSS, even Halo. on that

I replaced it with a 1950pro many years later :)
 
its called knock offs... it was a big thing with shoes, clothing, etc, etc... way back when. now its spread to computer parts. its more or less scamming.
 
its fake because they are selling it as one thing while giving you something far older and inferior, that and we don't even know if they are actual working cards since no one seems to want to buy one.
 
They took down the 650 Ti's But they still have some fake GPU's still up. For a minute I was happy thinking Newegg removed all those fake vendors, But nope! It is now obvious Newegg knows counterfeit products are being sold on their site by criminal vendors. And yet they have done nothing to correct it, And Newegg even knows some people know what is going on, And since Newegg has only removed some fake hardware. It's obvious they are trying to make people think they did something about it, But they did nothing about it. They had a long time to correct this, And any legitimate company would have corrected this the first minute they knew about it. I know Newegg has legitimate products. And I know as long as you buy products from Newegg instead of a vendor on their site you should be ok. But the fact that they know they have criminal vendors is not helping Newegg to keep a trusting relationship with customers. And this will also will cost them business. Which is why I can't understand why they do not want to correct this! It's insanity! This is a shame too! Because I like shopping at Newegg. They always have very good prices. ("on their real hardware anyway lol") And I always had good service with them. I hope they wise up and put a stop to this. I would hate to see them go down the sewer hole.
 
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