Allen
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Joined: Oct 1999
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Ohio USA
There have been a number of articles like this one lately. Just information. Not Nvidia bashing because Nvidia is not doing anything wrong -- its the "crooks' who are doing wrong. They pick on Nvidia because of its brand recognition.
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TechPowerUp solves the problem of Nvidia cheats
Your high-end card might be worse than you think
For a while now, resellers have been modifying lower end Nvidia graphics cards and flogging them off as more powerful cards online. It is somewhat telling that most people who buy them cannot spot the difference regarding performance.
In a recent version of its GPU-Z graphics card information utility, TechPowerUp has added the ability to detect these fake Nvidia cards.
TechPowerUp also told us that it is unaware of fake AMD cards and that the cards are typically sold in China but can make it to the West through eBay.
I suppose most SimHQ folks who read this use CPU-Z and GPU-Z. So, we're covered if we have the latest version loaded.
