Can You Identify This Video Card?

yhelothar

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i have a card that i have problems with and i want to rma, but i can't find out what manufacturer it is.. here are pics...

pic #1

pic #2

so far i found MSI, Asus and Palit to be using purple PCBs, but the shade of purple is a bit brighter, and it uses a different fan...
 

TourGuide

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If I didn't know better, I'd say it was a Gainward. That looks just like the HSF on my Ti4600 Gainward.
 

Harabecw

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he's looking for the company that made tha card :)

Didn't see any stickers for that...
 

eBauer

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I asked my friend who has a Purple MSI 4400 and he said it looks just like the one in the pic.
 

yhelothar

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thanks for your help!

btw your friend's MSI card... does it have the same cooler as the one in the pic? or just the same board?
 

Viper96720

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MSI makes the PNY boards so it maybe an MSI. I got a PNY that's the same color as your card. But there's a sticker on it that says pny. Mine doesn't have that sticker
in the second picture.
 

eBauer

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Originally posted by: virtualgames0
thanks for your help!

btw your friend's MSI card... does it have the same cooler as the one in the pic? or just the same board?


Yes, he said the cooler and capacitor locations on the board look the same.
 

Metalloid

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It's is definetly a PNY board, I used to have one and would recognize the color anytime. Not sure about that heatsink though.

And I know that MSI makes PNY, but I believe that the MSI boards are red.
 

Jayczar

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I had an MSI Championship edition that was purple like the PNY.
That heatsink looks spray painted IMHO.
 

Viper96720

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It won't have an FCC ID if it has the tested to comply with fcc standards on it. Then a fcc id isn't needed.
 

Peter

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I'd be using a PCI diagnostics utility, read the subsystem vendor ID and card ID registers. Then go www.pcisig.com to search the vendor database for the subsystem vendor ID.