This 'New' RTX 3060 From Aliexpress Was Suspiciously cheap...

This suspiciously cheap RTX 3060 from Aliexpress is one of the more dodgy graphics cards I've looked at in some time. So promosing, yet so dodgy.

The link for this exact card doesn't seem to exist anymore, but here is what seems like a full desktop

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[mysteryboyee]

honestly it's actually a pretty nice idea if it were to get done officially, the laptop gpu's could totally be released on desktop as like a low power alternative for those who need the efficiency but still want good performance, it's too bad nvidia would never go for it because they don't believe in making things affordable anymore

[markkocsicska]

I'm actually quite impressed with the engineering. If only they were honest and disclosed what they are selling in the listing AND made the drivers open source, I could see people being interested. The performance wasn't bad at all.

[watercannonscollaboration]

Wasn’t there a thing about a year ago where people were repurposing laptop GPUs in actual PCIe cards to mine because the laptop chips didn’t have hash rate limiters? If I remember the laptop 3060 actually has more cores than the desktop despite half the VRAM

[MarcoC.]

This gpu is really good, but I don't want that sussy wussy type driver that installs STDs in my desktop

[tamegaming]

I honestly love the idea of putting laptop GPUs in desktop form factor. Not only potentially salvaging otherwise junk hardware but also with improved efficiency

[txn]

This AliExpress graphics cards makes a huge success here in Brazil, and we have a full community of this cards with "techtubers" and users who make review of this cards. This 6GB 3060M is not recommended here, but we can buy some real good gpu (like a real 3060, 3070) for literally half a price in comparison with the Brazilian market.

[bariscosmaz]

The cause of the driver issue might be that these cards were produced for mining so they might have programmed a mining bios on them that nvidia drivers don't like. Flashing the bios to a real gtx 3060M might be helpful.

[lollermann]

8:43 imagine getting quickscoped by a guy doing a tech review

[NinjaContravaniaManX]

Yep, we're living in a time where a xx60 series GPU for 230$ is "suspiciously cheap". I hope Nvidia's storage facilities are soon "suspiciously full".

[HackforeverxD]

Actually a bit sad that it only works with * special * drivers if they would remove the 6 pin and let it only draw up to 75w via the pci slot this would be a insane good upgrade card for older prebuilds with shitty psus u cant upgrade

[Fay]

Pretty sure the driver issues came from Nvidia seeing tons of miners doing this laptop GPU on PCIe card thing (because non-LHR), that they started specifically locking out this config. If you go back even further, you may find older official drivers that fit.

[JHXmas]

Really makes me wish there were official mobile variants of these for desktop. Would be killer for low profile card builds

[jaykayismyname]

7:47 The way you're just casually discussing the graphics card, turn and immediately quickscope some random guy, and go back to playing like nothing happened is crazy

[thenoblehacker]

due to the power draw and performance, somehow the ali express card was better than the real deal. wow

[braindeadening]

The GPU probably has a funky hardware device ID by default, they likely had to modify some driver files to accommodate its ID. I've had to modify some device IDs in nvidia's offical drivers to make installers work on lesser-known laptops. device manager > right click the GPU > properties > details > set the dropdown to hardware ids and then add that ID to the inf files that the nvidia installer unzips in C:\NVIDIA. this will force you to disable driver signing, but you'll have official non-virused drivers.

[kajurn]

The driver issues are a major deal breaker, doubly so with the malware bundled with the janky drivers.

[fierce]

I don't know why, but I love watching Dawid wield his box cutter. Makes me happy he's using that cheap thing when everyone else has their nice knives for unboxings.

That being said, I'll get you a good knife if you're ready to upgrade!

[MeatSnax]

So awesome to have videos like this. Obviously this isn't an ideal desktop 3060, but this is definitely right up a lot of people's alley, but it's just not worth the risk to order it with no info.

[tkburn]

I've come across this problem before on laptop GPUs where you have to manually modify the driver.inf file with the gpuid before they install.