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    Is my new video card authentic?

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by OsCeZrCd, Oct 23, 2015.

  1. OsCeZrCd

    OsCeZrCd Newbie

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    Hi,

    I recently bought a Quadro M5000m on ebay and installed on my Precision M6800. After installation, everything seems to be OK except that my computer displays an incorrect name of it. So I am wondering: could this card be fake?

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    PS. The displayed clock frequency seems incorrect. Another tool says GPU clock is 962Mhz. This card beats quadro k5100m in specviewperf11, so I think its performance is as high as expected.
     
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  2. D2 Ultima

    D2 Ultima Livestreaming Master

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    Well it has the 1536 shaders that a M5000 should have, as well as the 8GB of vRAM. Here's notebookcheck's stats: http://www.notebookcheck.net/NVIDIA-Quadro-M5000M.151578.0.html

    The GPU clock is off, but I've seen 980Ms read as 540MHz in GPU-Z and in 3DMark as well, so that could just be a bug in GPU-Z.

    The name however really does seem off. According to this picture too, the device ID and GPU code match... just your BIOS seems screwed.

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    Maybe you somehow got an ES version? You could try to get another vBIOS for it, or ask @Prema to take a look at the vBIOS (buying him some beer helps) and see if he could work something out for you with the name and how it reads?
     
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  3. Prema

    Prema Your Freedom, Your Choice

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    Don't worry its all looking right. GPU-Z can no longer handle the way some vBIOS report clocks to it. Use the sensor window or NVIDIA Inspector to see actual core clock.

    The name is messed up because it was written that way into your driver .inf mod.
    Just change the name in the driver.
     
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    Thank you both for your help!

    NVIDIA Inspector says the clock is 962MHz and 1050MHz boost, so I think that's good.


    The seller indeed has sent me a modded .inf file. I didn't know he didn't enter the name correctly.
     
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    just need to modify .inf file, then this problem will be solved.
     
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    daishuyan, Oct 24, 2015
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