graphics cards from china

I need to buy a graphics card so I can use hashcat on kali linux. However they seem pretty expensive. Ali Express is selling far cheaper ones which come from China. Has anyone ever tried these?

Spear

By far cheaper, do you mean one of the infamous fake flashed BIOS ones? Link to an example that we can see.

Spear

Spear wrote: »

By far cheaper, do you mean one of the infamous fake flashed BIOS ones? Link to an example that we can see.

im not sure. ive never had one.

Aodhan5000

Here's a good example of buying GPUs from China (usually scams) :
https://youtu.be/HWYHuS87nTw

FanadMan

Deleted User wrote: »

im not sure. ive never had one.

Plenty of YT videos on how crappy they are......Linus and Ashens both did them.

Inquitus

It's caveat emptor, with the ban on cryptomining being introduced in China, there is likely a surplus of legit cards, but you are just as likely to get a GTX1030 that says its an RTX3090 in GPU-Z.

Homelander

Deleted User wrote: »

im not sure. ive never had one.

Actual legit graphics cards from China aren't much cheaper than they are here.

If you're seeing very low prices, they are 100% fake cards. Ebay and Aliexpress are flooded with them.

Don't waste your time. If they're legit, when you factor in customs and other charges, as well as the fact it's a nightmare if something goes wrong, you'll save pretty much nothing buying real cards from China, or generally, outside Europe.

pah

Hashcat runs just as well under Windows. Easier to setup too with drivers and the Cuda SDK. What do you need to crack, would a second hand GPU do the job for you?

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117591375#Comment_117591375

wifi passwords.

pah

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118038086#Comment_118038086

Based on your other posts my advice to you would be to exercise caution around this.