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Hello everyone!!! I recently picked this fake GT730 4GB DDR5 on a flea market for $34. I told myself this could be a nice chance to test my RPi spi flasher. Help me identify the real model of this card!!
 

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When analyze the saved bios by imhex, I got this information:
GF119 Board - 13100004

Can I assume this card use GF119-300-A1 chipset?
 

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Hello everyone!!! I recently picked this fake GT730 4GB DDR5 on a flea market for $34. I told myself this could be a nice chance to test my RPi spi flasher. Help me identify the real model of this card!!
Remove the gpu heatsink amd get a pucture of the board on the top and bottom and a pic of the pcie bracket ports, also s close up of a ram chip and the gpu die please

Some are even gf 116 based.

 
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Typically fake cards have all info real except DeviceId, Name and VRAM size/model.
So chances are that "GF119" and first digits of VBIOS version "75.19" are ok.

Searching by this number suggests that its GT610 GPU (Fermi GF119 card)

However, guessing the VRAM size - requires seeing the actual marking on the VRAM ICs, since specifying the wrong size in VBIOS is quite common (however, if card works fine with current VBIOS - chances are that VRAM size is ok).

So, Id suggest trying the GT610 2GB VBIOSes from
https://www.techpowerup.com/vgabios...=&interface=&memType=DDR3&memSize=2048&since=

If yours GPU set of a video outputs differs from "DVI-I+HDMI+VGA" - you may need checking some "unverified uploads" variants https://www.techpowerup.com/vgabios/?architecture=Uploads&memType=DDR3&memSize=2048&did=10DE-104A--
 

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From what is Reported GF 119 is supposed to be 48 8 4, GF 117 is 48 8 8, so its def an ultra fake.

Typically fake cards have all info real except DeviceId, Name and VRAM size/model.
So chances are that "GF119" and first digits of VBIOS version "75.19" are ok.

Searching by this number suggests that its GT610 GPU (Fermi GF119 card)

However, guessing the VRAM size - requires seeing the actual marking on the VRAM ICs, since specifying the wrong size in VBIOS is quite common (however, if card works fine with current VBIOS - chances are that VRAM size is ok).

So, Id suggest trying the GT610 2GB VBIOSes from
https://www.techpowerup.com/vgabios...=&interface=&memType=DDR3&memSize=2048&since=

If yours GPU set of a video outputs differs from "DVI-I+HDMI+VGA" - you may need checking some "unverified uploads" variants https://www.techpowerup.com/vgabios/?architecture=Uploads&memType=DDR3&memSize=2048&did=10DE-104A--
Bios being heavily modified determines the ram, also ive seen ram reported as 2 gb when physically only having 1 gb
 

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How to determine the card is gt 610 or gt 520?
What video outputs are on the card? Take a picture. I asked for that earlier

Is there only 4 ram chips on the card, zoom out and take a picture then flip the card over and get a picture.

Because all I see is 512MegaBytes or 0.5 GigaBytes physically present on there.
 
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The gpu die is GF119-300-A1
Ram :
1. h5tq1g83tfr- h9c - 4pcs
2. H5TQ1G83TFR-G7C -4pcs

The port output : DVI, HDMI, VGA
 

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The gpu die is GF119-300-A1
Ram :
1. h5tq1g83tfr- h9c - 4pcs
2. H5TQ1G83TFR-G7C -4pcs

The port output : DVI, HDMI, VGA
Ok it's a 1GB card, DDR3, Hynix (Bios Reports micron, but thats fake)

This is definitely a basket case frankenstein fake.

Also it will need to run the ram speed bin at 1066 since that is the slower of the bunch


From what I see your current bios would need to be edited to restore correct information since the card is using a mobility version of a gpu die, also to restore hynix info, correct ram amount of 1GB and clock speeds.

You seriously have a potato on your hands.

GF119
48 Shaders
8 TMU
8 ROP

Your ram


Try these for looking in the vga bios collection (Keep in mind your rop count can be fake)

Good luck hunting.
 

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How to determine the card is gt 610 or gt 520?
I'm not sure that 520 was different from 610 in anything besides VBIOS. So the anwser is "doesn't matter"

I suggest just trying this 610 VBIOS (it the most conservative VRAM frequencies from other 610s 1GB)


As far as you already have a backup you have very small risk in experimenting with various VBIOSes.
 
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