A Couple Rounds of CSGO and a Misbehaving Cooler

I decided to fire up my computer and play a couple rounds of CSGO while testing out my new graphics card, but unfortunately, the temperatures were not cooperating. The cooler was stuck at 100%, indicating that it was running at maximum capacity, but I had no control over the fan speed. It's not unusual for coolers to malfunction or run erratically, especially during intense gaming sessions.

However, things took a turn for the worse when I began running benchmarks on my graphics card. My Spidey senses started tingling as I compared the results with those of other users online who had been testing the RX 560. The performance didn't quite align with what I expected, and that's when my suspicions about something being fishy started to surface.

I decided to dig deeper by checking out GPU-Z, a popular tool for monitoring graphics card information. When I looked up the card's details on the website, it surprisingly showed me that the card was actually an RX 462 gig variant, which didn't quite add up. Hardware Info also reported the same thing, with conflicting messages about the card's identity.

I decided to take a closer look at the actual GPU die to see if anything seemed out of the ordinary. The components around the die did seem to correspond with those found in RX 460 and 560 GPUs, but the die number itself didn't match any known variants. This lack of correlation was quite puzzling, especially since AMD is generally good about printing the correct GPU name on their graphics cards.

Unfortunately, without access to a public database that maps die numbers to specific GPUs, it's difficult to determine if this card is legitimate or not. I spent an entire day trying to figure out what kind of graphics card I was dealing with, but it was like trying to solve a puzzle with missing pieces. The performance was bad enough that it didn't make sense, and the lack of information online made it even more challenging.

A Theory Emerges

After some digging, I stumbled upon a theory about this graphics card being an RX 560 D, which is allegedly a cut-down version designed for the Chinese market. According to my research, this variant has fewer shader cores than the standard RX 560 and doesn't have a boost frequency, only operating at a base speed of 1150 MHz. This could explain why it's performing worse in games.

In my opinion, the company behind this graphics card made a mistake by not clearly labeling it as an "RX 560 leper edition" or something similar. The specs are all over the place and lack transparency, making it difficult to trust them. If you're in the market for a budget graphics card, it's essential to be cautious, especially when dealing with dodgy listings.

The Experience

This exercise has made it clear that buying a budget graphics card can be a gamble. With so much conflicting information online and unclear specs, it's easy to get misled. The only way to be sure is to try out the card for yourself and see how it performs in different scenarios.

I'm planning to take my graphics card and attempt to flash a proper RX 560 BIOS onto it, which will allow me to overclock the GPU and push its performance limits. If you're interested in seeing this process unfold, be sure to subscribe to my channel for more videos like this one. I'll also be sharing updates on my social media channels, so keep an eye out for those as well.

For now, I'm taking a break from streaming and spending some time exploring the woods around Vancouver. It's going to be a great weekend, and I'm excited to get back to work on my graphics card soon.

WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enin today's video we're going to look at a pretty weird graphics card I found on new way it's an AMD graphics card by a company called Korn no not bad corn corn and in today's video we're gonna see if it's any good but before that we've got our first video sponsor today that's super exciting today's video sponsor is surf chard now there are a couple of reasons why you should probably use a VPN now the first one is that it helps secure all of your internet browsing you know it means that other people can track all of the dodgy things you look at on the Internet now another reason why you should probably get a VPN and this in my opinion is the most important one do you ever get that feeling that every time you look for a specific show or movie on Netflix it's only your region that doesn't have it available like like Rick and Morty for example you don't get Rick and Morty in the Canada Netflix tour and something like surf shark will help you get access to more regions and more content surf shark is a really good VPN option for a couple reasons the first one is the fact that it's pretty easy to use when you sign up they send you an email that kind of explains to you how to set surf shock up on your various devices and the app works pretty well but another thing that I really like about it is the fact that you can use unlimited devices on a single surf shark account so if all of this stuff sounds pretty good to you you can sign up to surf shark using my codes in the video description and you'll get a pretty big discount you know all that good stuff now the other day I was browsing Newegg for some graphics cards to do videos on something that I actually do an embarrassing amount of and I saw that these corn graphics cards were on sale now they were all fairly low-end variants and the rx 561 specifically caught my eye now when you go into the listing for this graphics card there are a couple of things that make my spidey sense tingle the first one is the fact that it lists a core frequency of 1500 megahertz but then when you go into the specs it lists a core frequency of a thousand and fifty megahertz and a boost frequency of twelve hundred and fifty megahertz now I'm not a mathematician but those numbers aren't aren't the same another thing that's super dodgy is the fact that they list the coup de coeur count of an AMD rx 560 there's supposedly an added board partner they should know that AMD graphics cards don't have CUDA cores in them like how does that even happen so I decided to buy one and see whether or not we get a dodgy graphics card that comes with a whole array of stds all we get a good graphics card from an underrated manufacturer that nobody's ever heard of before or you know it may just be purely functional so with that let's see what kind of package we got they do that interesting thing where they lie about the value of the product so that you don't have to pay like import duty so thanks corn and the graphics card comes from Hong Kong which I feel like is fairly weird for new egg everything that I've bought off of new egg has come from like local distributors at most from the US so with that let's open the DHL packaging and see what we have I clearly wasn't expecting my address to also be in here but this this clearly isn't a great start this is very wish graphics card esque this packaging does not inspire confidence this does look a little bit like a pound of cocaine hides in here I don't really know how this package makes it through customs without any questions but anyway let's just kind of at least it's very well protected there we go so this is some very persistent packaging this is actually first off they leave this little bit of paper in here saying need your positive review if you're satisfied although this packaging just looks like generic graphics card packaging it gives you no indication of what a graphics card is in here at least we know that it's compatible with Windows 7 and Windows 8 which is that's very comforting okay so first off we have a dual molex to 6-pin power connector so that's that's useful actually seems really exciting this is a graphics card I've I've never seen before the first thing that I noticed with this graphics card is that it doesn't have a 6 pin PCI Express connector so why are they giving us this connector with it and then the rear i/o is actually very promising we've got a display port HDMI and DVI so there's no VGA which is usually a giveaway sign that it's a much older graphics card than it advertised to be yeah I actually think this is an rx 560 it looks like it might be one but we're gonna test it and see if it works and how it performs and they were obviously going to take off the heatsink as well so that we can look underneath and see what's going on here and now it's time for the moment of truth let's see if this little thing fires up seems like we're fine starting up we've got image straight off the bat it's not behaving weirdly at all so that's good it does detect four gigs of gddr5 with 128 bit boss Oh stops happening I think it's just rescaling system changes please reboot your computer to take effect let's restart ok so we've rebooted and gpu-z now does actually recognize it okay so we're looking good we're looking good everything seems to check out so what we're gonna do is I'm gonna do some game benchmarks we're gonna see how well this graphics card runs and I'm also going to do some thermal tests especially worried about those those exposed memory modules there we'll see kind of what temperature's we get with this card and then just for the hell of it I'm gonna take the cooler off and we're gonna see what's going on on the PCB underneath that beauty so I've been playing a couple rounds of csgo and while the temperatures are pretty good the cooler is is just stuck at 100% you don't actually have control of the fan speed it's not variable now after doing the benchmarks mmm my spidey senses started tingling if you compare it to the results that other people seem to be getting on the internet with the RX 560 it didn't it didn't quite line up the way I thought it would now that's not the only thing that makes me feel that something fishy is going on here because when you look at gpu-z it tells you that it's a 560 and then you click on the lookup function which actually validates the card and it takes you to a webpage that tells you that it's an RX 462 gig variant that doesn't really make sense either and hardware info also reads the card as an RX 460 so there's some conflicting messages going on here it's starting to seem like the kind of graphics card you wouldn't feel comfortable being alone with at night so let's take off the cooler and see what GPU were working with so here we have the actual die which in itself isn't entirely weird for an RX 560 you can see all the components around the die do actually kind of correspond with what RX 460 and 560 GPUs would look like I think that's a bit weird about it though is that the actual die number on on the die doesn't really correlate with any of the die numbers that you know various versions of the 460 and the 560 have on them it's pretty weird that it doesn't now the thing is that doesn't in itself mean that it's that it's a dodgy that it's a dodgy GPU because the thing is unfortunately there isn't like a public database where AMD tells you what died numbers correlate to what GPUs and video is actually really good about this because they just print the GPU name on the actual GPU die so that's that's pretty good whereas with this it's quite difficult to identify a GPU by that number I actually spent an entire day trying to figure out what the damn graphics card was because it kind of looks like an Rx for 60 or 560 die but then because the die number is weird like it it didn't make any sense and because the performance was bad it also didn't make any sense and there isn't a hue huge catalogue of information around the stuff on the internet so it's just it's difficult to figure out what these cards are now I actually have a theory around what graphics code I think this is and I think I may have figured it out I think this is an AMD rx 560 D which is a cut-down version of the graphics card that AMD made for the Chinese ek Fame market the actual shader cores the GPU Z tells us it has actually checks out it seems like the right amount and another reason that I think it performs worse than the normal 560 is because it doesn't actually have a boost frequency it just has like a base frequency of 1150 and that's what the graphics card runs at it doesn't boost any higher than that so the cotton core with the lower core speed kind of explains the worst performance in games now in my opinion the only thing that corn did wrong here is they didn't specify that this is an RX 560 leper edition you can kind of figure that out from the specs but the specs are really dodgy and they're all over the place right so that you know it doesn't give you a clear indication and it doesn't seem to be trustworthy now this whole exercise makes it pretty clear to me that if you're buying a budget graphics card you need to be pretty careful especially with these more dodgy listings with that thank you very much for watching if you liked the video like and subscribe to the channel for more videos like this one I'm actually gonna try and flash a proper rx 560 BIOS onto it and overclock the living crap out of it so that we can see if we can get really good performance from it so subscribe if you want to see that follow me on whatever social media you like I'm not gonna be streaming today I'm taking the weekend off to go and check out the woods around Vancouver I think it's gonna be pretty exciting yeah so until the next video bye byein today's video we're going to look at a pretty weird graphics card I found on new way it's an AMD graphics card by a company called Korn no not bad corn corn and in today's video we're gonna see if it's any good but before that we've got our first video sponsor today that's super exciting today's video sponsor is surf chard now there are a couple of reasons why you should probably use a VPN now the first one is that it helps secure all of your internet browsing you know it means that other people can track all of the dodgy things you look at on the Internet now another reason why you should probably get a VPN and this in my opinion is the most important one do you ever get that feeling that every time you look for a specific show or movie on Netflix it's only your region that doesn't have it available like like Rick and Morty for example you don't get Rick and Morty in the Canada Netflix tour and something like surf shark will help you get access to more regions and more content surf shark is a really good VPN option for a couple reasons the first one is the fact that it's pretty easy to use when you sign up they send you an email that kind of explains to you how to set surf shock up on your various devices and the app works pretty well but another thing that I really like about it is the fact that you can use unlimited devices on a single surf shark account so if all of this stuff sounds pretty good to you you can sign up to surf shark using my codes in the video description and you'll get a pretty big discount you know all that good stuff now the other day I was browsing Newegg for some graphics cards to do videos on something that I actually do an embarrassing amount of and I saw that these corn graphics cards were on sale now they were all fairly low-end variants and the rx 561 specifically caught my eye now when you go into the listing for this graphics card there are a couple of things that make my spidey sense tingle the first one is the fact that it lists a core frequency of 1500 megahertz but then when you go into the specs it lists a core frequency of a thousand and fifty megahertz and a boost frequency of twelve hundred and fifty megahertz now I'm not a mathematician but those numbers aren't aren't the same another thing that's super dodgy is the fact that they list the coup de coeur count of an AMD rx 560 there's supposedly an added board partner they should know that AMD graphics cards don't have CUDA cores in them like how does that even happen so I decided to buy one and see whether or not we get a dodgy graphics card that comes with a whole array of stds all we get a good graphics card from an underrated manufacturer that nobody's ever heard of before or you know it may just be purely functional so with that let's see what kind of package we got they do that interesting thing where they lie about the value of the product so that you don't have to pay like import duty so thanks corn and the graphics card comes from Hong Kong which I feel like is fairly weird for new egg everything that I've bought off of new egg has come from like local distributors at most from the US so with that let's open the DHL packaging and see what we have I clearly wasn't expecting my address to also be in here but this this clearly isn't a great start this is very wish graphics card esque this packaging does not inspire confidence this does look a little bit like a pound of cocaine hides in here I don't really know how this package makes it through customs without any questions but anyway let's just kind of at least it's very well protected there we go so this is some very persistent packaging this is actually first off they leave this little bit of paper in here saying need your positive review if you're satisfied although this packaging just looks like generic graphics card packaging it gives you no indication of what a graphics card is in here at least we know that it's compatible with Windows 7 and Windows 8 which is that's very comforting okay so first off we have a dual molex to 6-pin power connector so that's that's useful actually seems really exciting this is a graphics card I've I've never seen before the first thing that I noticed with this graphics card is that it doesn't have a 6 pin PCI Express connector so why are they giving us this connector with it and then the rear i/o is actually very promising we've got a display port HDMI and DVI so there's no VGA which is usually a giveaway sign that it's a much older graphics card than it advertised to be yeah I actually think this is an rx 560 it looks like it might be one but we're gonna test it and see if it works and how it performs and they were obviously going to take off the heatsink as well so that we can look underneath and see what's going on here and now it's time for the moment of truth let's see if this little thing fires up seems like we're fine starting up we've got image straight off the bat it's not behaving weirdly at all so that's good it does detect four gigs of gddr5 with 128 bit boss Oh stops happening I think it's just rescaling system changes please reboot your computer to take effect let's restart ok so we've rebooted and gpu-z now does actually recognize it okay so we're looking good we're looking good everything seems to check out so what we're gonna do is I'm gonna do some game benchmarks we're gonna see how well this graphics card runs and I'm also going to do some thermal tests especially worried about those those exposed memory modules there we'll see kind of what temperature's we get with this card and then just for the hell of it I'm gonna take the cooler off and we're gonna see what's going on on the PCB underneath that beauty so I've been playing a couple rounds of csgo and while the temperatures are pretty good the cooler is is just stuck at 100% you don't actually have control of the fan speed it's not variable now after doing the benchmarks mmm my spidey senses started tingling if you compare it to the results that other people seem to be getting on the internet with the RX 560 it didn't it didn't quite line up the way I thought it would now that's not the only thing that makes me feel that something fishy is going on here because when you look at gpu-z it tells you that it's a 560 and then you click on the lookup function which actually validates the card and it takes you to a webpage that tells you that it's an RX 462 gig variant that doesn't really make sense either and hardware info also reads the card as an RX 460 so there's some conflicting messages going on here it's starting to seem like the kind of graphics card you wouldn't feel comfortable being alone with at night so let's take off the cooler and see what GPU were working with so here we have the actual die which in itself isn't entirely weird for an RX 560 you can see all the components around the die do actually kind of correspond with what RX 460 and 560 GPUs would look like I think that's a bit weird about it though is that the actual die number on on the die doesn't really correlate with any of the die numbers that you know various versions of the 460 and the 560 have on them it's pretty weird that it doesn't now the thing is that doesn't in itself mean that it's that it's a dodgy that it's a dodgy GPU because the thing is unfortunately there isn't like a public database where AMD tells you what died numbers correlate to what GPUs and video is actually really good about this because they just print the GPU name on the actual GPU die so that's that's pretty good whereas with this it's quite difficult to identify a GPU by that number I actually spent an entire day trying to figure out what the damn graphics card was because it kind of looks like an Rx for 60 or 560 die but then because the die number is weird like it it didn't make any sense and because the performance was bad it also didn't make any sense and there isn't a hue huge catalogue of information around the stuff on the internet so it's just it's difficult to figure out what these cards are now I actually have a theory around what graphics code I think this is and I think I may have figured it out I think this is an AMD rx 560 D which is a cut-down version of the graphics card that AMD made for the Chinese ek Fame market the actual shader cores the GPU Z tells us it has actually checks out it seems like the right amount and another reason that I think it performs worse than the normal 560 is because it doesn't actually have a boost frequency it just has like a base frequency of 1150 and that's what the graphics card runs at it doesn't boost any higher than that so the cotton core with the lower core speed kind of explains the worst performance in games now in my opinion the only thing that corn did wrong here is they didn't specify that this is an RX 560 leper edition you can kind of figure that out from the specs but the specs are really dodgy and they're all over the place right so that you know it doesn't give you a clear indication and it doesn't seem to be trustworthy now this whole exercise makes it pretty clear to me that if you're buying a budget graphics card you need to be pretty careful especially with these more dodgy listings with that thank you very much for watching if you liked the video like and subscribe to the channel for more videos like this one I'm actually gonna try and flash a proper rx 560 BIOS onto it and overclock the living crap out of it so that we can see if we can get really good performance from it so subscribe if you want to see that follow me on whatever social media you like I'm not gonna be streaming today I'm taking the weekend off to go and check out the woods around Vancouver I think it's gonna be pretty exciting yeah so until the next video bye bye