Cheap AliExpress Graphics Cards - SCAM??? 

Linus disappointed that he wasn't disappointed.

Make an aliexpress pc build

Surprise 1: They got the card Surprise 2: They payed triple digits for the cards Surprise 3: They worked Surprise 4: They were legit Surprise 5: Linus didn’t drop anything

Back when 1060’s were $400-$500 new lmao Q1 2021 edit: this aged horribly Q4 2021 edit: i’m so tired of this comment Q2 2022 edit: ok it was funny make it stop

That ELSA card must have the best cooling on the planet.

Was anyone else hoping he would plug it it and it would come up as a crappier/ older model

"Cheap" also him "It only cost $700" Am I just to broke to even be watching this video?

linus: after i tell you abou- me: *skips 10 seconds* linus: ...at the links below.

1060 5GB version, in China we call it 1065, it has 1280 cuda cores same with 1060+6GB (1066), but only 160 bit memory. It is designed for net cafe’ usage. Because it can handle high setting PUBG while the performance of mining decreases dramatically due to less bandwidth of memory. Theoratically it can be only bought through particular channel directly to Nvidia, not for private gamers, but it is China, so...There are lots of 1065s out in the market. Same price with 1060 3GB 192bit(1152cores which we call it 1063), but can deliver better performance. 1066s are more expensive due to bitcoin and other mining usage.

You should do an entire build on questionable foreign parts and see how it holds up against a legit-built PC of the same “on paper” specs

5GB wasn't an accident. It was a deeply researched number to minimize ram while also minimizing slowdowns from caching in modern games. They were really trying to focus in on bang for the buck and lead to a really weird amount of ram :P

7:51 i like how it says "Death in internet cafes"

Bought GPU on Aliexpress. Expect to get scammed. Didn't get scammed. Cards works perfectly. Still being skeptical about everything. :D

watch AliExpress market go through the roof now

Just don't buy GPUs on Wish

De Broglie 1:10 Actually pronounced as "De Broy" And we were taught, "learn to say it properly or else the people of the West will laugh at you"

@4:02 The tape on the SLI connectors is called Kapton tape. It is used in electronics manufacturing for various reasons due to its ability to withstand high temperatures. I honestly don't know why they put it on there to begin with, but I assume someone accidently left it on there. Usually Kapton tape is used for one of these reasons: 1. Preventing solder pads from corroding from heat (the pads in the video are gold-plated tho, so this is unnecessary here). 2. Preventing liquid solder to stick to the pad (which is not the case here since wave soldering is way too coarse for a GPU). 3. Something else which probably only made sense during manufacturing.

Yes Gtx1060 5g is real. In China we call it Gtx1065. It is a special edition which only sales to Internet cafe.

Yeah boy..... your founder overpriced eddition got wrecked by the chinese low budget 1080ti. LeL

Linus: "Dee-Broge-lee" Physics students: *crying in french*

AFTER I TELL YOU ABOUT TODA- * *skips 10 seconds* *

DAMN, we Chinese failed to scam you this time. It's a shame.

DeBroglie was a scientist who can up with the De Broglie Theorem, where Wavelength = Planks constant / momentum, proving particles can act like a wave

2:58 'There's nothing really ELSA'bout it that sets off warning bells.'

It's not scam if it's scam it will be Ali-AExpress

Obviously a card named after snow queen Elsa will be a lot cooler.

anyone else just get happy when they see Anthony appear in any of these videos? i'm so glad he's doing more hosting as he's my favorite, hands down

Just because it’s affordable and made in China doesn’t mean it’s a scam.

2:57 "Nothing really ELSAbout it"

I wish you'd have dismantled the cards to check out the dies, and i really really wish there had been some data on temps, as well as some testing done on that. Seems like that is really where these cards would differ.

Linus never fails to integrate the sponsorship into his videos

Man imagine graphics cards being in stock.

It's pronounced "de-broi". He was a French theoretical physicist who outlined the wave-particle duality theorem of photons in his thesis roughly 100y ago. Very strange as to why such a name slash sticker would be on even a Chinese product.

I CAN prononce kurzgesagt, as well as Grzegorz Brzęczyszczykiewicz, but I'm half Pole, half German. The tongue breakers nightmare.

i like how your thumbnails are the perfect embodiment of the RU-vidr stereotype.

i love how linus spit his water and then struggle to breath for a while and then start his line

To me, the main concern about buying somewhat expensive stuff from AliExpress, is it being seized by customs. I don't know in other countries, here in Spain it may happen

2:59 “There’s nothing really ESLA bout it.”

My reaction time has gone up from trying to skip Linus’s ad

Sept 2019 update: can now get those same cards for a fraction of the price... 2-3GB for $125, 5-6GB for $210-240 (US prices), not much cheaper than new from reputable sites (and likely more expensive once you add in shipping).

Towards the end of the video. What do you mean by "not a complete scam"? It's not even a "partial" scam. Linus got exactly what was advertised, functional, not DOA, performs on-par to expectation / similar products. Linus was just unfamiliar with / lacking exposure to the global market / variants. On the plus side, I'm glad Linus has been doing more reviews on foreign products, such as the video with the Korean domestic LG laptop.

My first thought when he said 5GB was "Ah, a China-Only model." There are, in fact, a lot of manufacturers who will basically sell to 2 whole different markets with different prices, standards, etc, and China is among the leaders there when it comes to computers and technology. I've seen 5GB and 7GB video cards more than once that people assumed were fake, but turned out in the end to just be models not meant to be shipped or sold outside of mainland China. Makes it really easy to identify them in customer support cases (as in you get none, even if it's using real parts). Basically, from what the test results showed, these are the rejects, or "B bin" cards from manufacturers, being slightly modified for resale in certain markets where they will never be held liable for anything that happens after they sell those parts to an OEM. In those cases that I've seen, like here, they bought them off AliExpress. Linus paid $725 for a video card that likely cost the reseller less than $300 (around 2000 Yuan is likely from what I've found, but only found locally, not online, as they're not legal to export usually) at a local shop to buy AND ship, and ended up with something you were never intended to be aware of, let alone receive, as we are not part of that target market. The thing they usually find is exactly in line with what Linus found - cheap, low quality cooling systems and power management. You can bet that if Linus ran an actual stress test or 24hr burntest on either of those cards, he'd have much different results as the capacitors started to overheat and die or the GPU itself start to deball from the board due to extreme overheating, much like the original Xbox 360. Actually, Linus, you might want to get back in touch with Stranger Parts and see if he can find one or both of those same exact boxes at a local shop over there in Shenzhen, and get a more precise idea what the markup might actually be on those specific ones. I'm sure there are others like me who are curious.

While I was out in China (Shanghai) and I went to some tech fair, there was a complete PC setup that was playing a video of Dead or Alive, which was only on consoles at the time. I pointed this out, and said it isn't representative of the graphics card, and was told to leave.

If i recognize correctly, de Brogli is a term in the quantum physics

Well Elsa is huge in Japan and Maxsun is huge in Chinese markets, so they ought to be legit.

China has 5GB GTX 1060's for internet/gaming cafés. So it's legit! Maybe I'll make a video on it

why you just dont download a new gpu?

Bruh, when I clicked on your video, I got an ad of you advertising Pulseware.

Once upon a time there was a premium brand for graphic cards. The name was ELSA. Now it's a no name brand from China. As time goes by...

Buying graphic cards is for poor. Legends download and install graphic cards.

Yellow tape is used for things like dust-cover, and this case it could be to avoid oxidation of the conductors

Linus then: Omg! This card may actually have 5 gigs of vram! Linus now: Yeah the new Nvidia card will have 48 gigabytes of ram

de Broglie ( pronounced Day-Broye) is the name of a physicist who was famous for defining the wavelength of particles in a quantum mechanical sense, known as the de Broglie wavelength. It is defined as planck's constant divided by the momentum of the particle. I don't know what any of this has to do with graphics cards, but regardless...

It's a scam, Like Tunnelbear the easy VPN service.

Aliexpress is usually not too bad with returns/faulty purchases. But as always, if it seems too good to be true it probably is.

2:57 nothing really ELSA-bout it that sets of warning bells.

As far as I know, there are graphics cards on eBay (and probably also on AliExpress), where the boxes are just labelled "GRAPHICS CARD", and they are older and lower end graphics cards that have had their firmware modified to trick the system into thinking they are newer cards. YT user "PhilsComputerLab" has done a few videos on that.

DeBroglie was a physicist. He did work on the idea that a particle can act like a wave.

You know your throwing water from mouth looks really funny and specially when you did it after seeing apple's mac pro specs and price😂

Use a dremel on the solid cooling fin design and cut some actual fins and let the heat sink breath so the fans are more effective.

I know this is several months old, but I would love to see some torture tests or longevity tests on these cards

I think Anthony's really cool, I wish we saw him more often

that kurzgesagt bit at the end was fantastic

Love the vids im actually trying to build my own but I still am trying to save money keep up the vids

Gtx 1060 5Gb card is made officially by Nividia, the purpose of this card is to provide a budget graphics card for the Internet cafe, the ability of Bitcoin mining is cut on this card so the price will be stable. The overall gaming ability of the 5Gb 1060 is very similar to the 6Gb 1060. When this card was first launched, it was not allowed to be sold to normal customers, but people in China always get some special sources that can get this card from. So the 1060 5Gb became the best! budget card in the market due to its gaming ability and lower price. However, the 1065 u get doesn’t have a formal package and doesn’t have nividia warranty. The most popular gtx 1065 on the market is from Gigabyte and Colorful. If u are in China, gtx 1060 5Gb is still my first recommendation.

there is a 1060 with 5gb its not for NA markets

"I don't know what debroglie is but it doesn't sound very good" lol

"Throwing random objects in the air was a good bench test, ain't it?!" 🗨😋💨🖥🛋

Careful: Aliexpress (in contrast to eBay) does not include import tax from far eastern countries. Prepare to pick up & pay for your stuff at customs. Better look for grey import deals on eBay that were shipped by the dealer to a "nearby" location beforehand and then sent to you without the need to pay for customs!

when the title said "cheap" i thought it was going to be around 100-200 lmao

i get up in the morning and go to work for 8 to 10hrs a day. the first thing i do when i get home is make food. turn on my pc and watch your videos. awesome work. what you do is a dream of mine

3:55 kapton tape is used during production to ensure no solder gets on the gold fingers. Not surprised to see that QA never found that one lol

I think, if you take care of cooling, cleaning and power supply, these VGA cards can be durable, because in my view it's the only "problem" they can bring, the specifications and benchmarks are the same as the "originals".

I had a girlfriend many years ago whose best friend's name was Debroglie

I can remember that 1080 was selling for about 400usd on taobao. What u got is the same one but almost doubled the price.

Actually they made a 5 gig version of 1060

Theoretically, if the PCB on the Aliexpress 1080 is the same, you could rip the cooling off and liquid cool it, making it a more affordable and equally as good solution for those who are looking for a 1080 that they will be liquid cooling. Interesting...

Bless Nvidia and their transparency and clear choice for consumers with their GPP and their GT 1030 with GDDR5 or DDR4 versions, their GTX 1050 2GB and new 3GB version, and the GTX1060 3GB, 6GB and 5GB version.

2:57 "There's nothing really ELSA about it."

That orange tape is Capton tape. It's there to protect the card edge connector from solder, but that's usually used for protecting mounting hole pads from wave soldering. Probably the board is getting way too much solder paste in assembly, and the only way they can make sure no extra liquid solder flows on the connector is to protect it with Capton tape?

GTX 1060 5GB is actually real Nvidia card, but it's only for asian market and it's supposed to be used in Chinese internet cafes. You can Google it quite easily. It was announced at the end of the year 2017. EDIT: OK, it's being said in the video. I just commented too early :)

Spend a lot of time analyzing the heatsink, but I see no temp readings or overclocks. :(

I got a colorful GTX 1660 off AliExpress and the cooler seemed mostly plastic but it had 3 fans and overclocked well without going over 65 degrees

ur today's sponsor, the be quiet fan, i have the same cooler but with a bigger heatsink and 2 fans, it works soooooo well

There is a 5GB GTX 1060. It was made from the 1060 6GB that had dead memory modules on them. These 5GB cards can not be bought publicly and are only sold to Chinese Internet gaming cafés.

Actually, the GTX 1060 5GB does exist. It's not available outside of China, IIRC.

The sli connection is taped over to protect it from static or short circuits... you can remove the protections if you use the SLI..

1:14 The De Broglie Wavelength is the wavelength of electrons.

The answer is simple lol, the original does not actually cost that much to produce but is sold for way more than it's worth.

From watching your video, it doesn't seem like a scam at all. Just some poorer quality heatsinks reflected in the price. You just decided it was a scam from the get go, and trying so hard to prove it. Even at the end you were saying "not quite a scam" implying you're still being scammed in some way. You just got a cheaper variant, but you decided it was a scam because you're used to the premium variants sold in the western markets. What you did miss a chance on is actually doing something useful like measuring temperature performances on those heatsinks and fans and comparing it to the expensive premium heatsinks from the western markets. Obviously it would not be as good, but what's important is that you can use the data to predict whether the cheaper ones are fit for purpose over the lifetime of the card. The heatsinks included might not be the pinnicle of engineering but they might do a well enough job for the purpose. Or maybe they don't. But you could test it and that'll be useful information for everybody..

Got a McDonald’s ad for fries while I’m at work eating McDonald’s fries on my break

The big guys facial expressions are awesome!

There's actually a 5GB 1060 built for gaming cafes in china or somewhere in case Linus didn't know. 😂I actually heard that way back a long time ago in a video. This comment was made 3 mins into the video . He did find out finally .

There are 1060 with 5gb of memory. They were launched primarily to solve the graphic shortages due to mining. They were sold exclusively to some net bars and should not be sold on the market. However in the end, some manufacturers like this one in the video called “Ming Xuan” was bold enough to sell 5gb 1060to average consumers.

Glad that you spit those water at the plants lol

We were just waiting for the fan to hit your fingers at the 2nd card

7:52 "Its Intended for Internet Cafes" Top Left Video: "Deaths in Internet Cafes" Not bad, Noooot... bad

That Elsa card was definitely frozen.

xD his reaction when he's like "i almost blew that segue.

linus out here trying so hard to find means to insult the elsa lol