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id hardware type thing

elexes · 2003-11-16 22:07:21

one of my m8ts just got a 9800 ati card from e-bay apart from hes worried it might not be a real 9800 even tho its showing up as one . any way to chk it out there is no serial numbers that he can see . or stickers .

16-11-2003 11:07pm

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elexes

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one of my m8ts just got a 9800 ati card from e-bay apart from hes worried it might not be a real 9800 even tho its showing up as one . any way to chk it out

there is no serial numbers that he can see . or stickers .

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#2 16-11-2003 11:27pm

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On the nvidia gfx cards when you take the heatsink off the gpu, it will have the chip id on it, like da pic attached.
Probably the same as ati cards.

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#3 17-11-2003 1:05am

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not a bad ida . never thought of taking off the heatsink

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