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Hello guys can someone help me to identify why are cards on this site so cheap, it says 120 bucks for R9 280x card and what does Tahiti stands for?

http://www.aliexpress.com/item/Free-shipping-EMS-SAPPHIRE-Radeon-R9-280X-Tahiti-XTL-GDDR5-3GB-384bit-DirectX-11-2-2048/1704806973.html

Are they worse in mining?

Tahiti is their codename ( 280x = tahiti, 290x = hawaii), they are good at mining. Around 700-750 kh/s , but this deal is too good to be true. I wouldn't trust to buy from this chinese with no reviews and feedbacks.



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Ok thanks for explaining, is there anyone who could feedback positively buying from chinese?

That has to be a typo.

I should order one and see if it actually ships.

Its not typo if you check you can see all their cards are much cheaper than other sites.

"No feedback score.

Detailed Seller Ratings information is unavailable when there're less than 10 ratings."

Noooooope. I'll pass.

Okay so in simple words it would be risky purchase.

What about this?

Even more risky?

http://www.aliexpress.com/item/cheap-graphics-brand-computer-video-cards-wholesale-online-best-price-new-and-discount-SAPPHIRE-R9-290X/1702418814.html

or this

http://www.aliexpress.com/item/video-graphics-card-best-price-graphics-cheap-video-card-2014-wholesale-high-quality-new-coming-MSI/1705713686.html

Looks legit.

if you buy with your credit card, you can do a charge back if they do not ship.

It's not a question of shipping, but a question of whether the product is real and not some fakes made in those dodgy factories next to fake Nike products, fake golf products.

good point, well if he gets it and the pci-e slot is made of cardboard something is wrong there.

No fucking way at these prices.

The only way I can see this being real is if these cards are from someone that jacked a trailer or a shipping container full of them and is trying to unload them fast.

Smells like a scam to me..

Anyone game enough to buy one xD?

Looks like someone bought 12 of those at once http://www.aliexpress.com/item/video-graphics-card-best-price-graphics-cheap-video-card-2014-wholesale-high-quality-new-coming-MSI/1705713686.html

It says first purchase was 8 days ago, but still no feedback. They probably just don't send anything.

This could be you  ;D

http://korzik.net/uploads/posts/2014-03/1394123912_338-040a.jpg

http://korzik.net/uploads/posts/2014-03/1394123931_338-040b.jpg

if its too good to be true - then it is.

I've ordered parts from aliexpress before like an iPod 30gb motherboard, but damn not recently.

Has anyone noticed the ridiculously low prices on phones too?  Supposedly 1:1 copies of Samsung SIV's (quad, 2g ram, 13 mp camera, 1920x1080 screen) WITH LOGOs all over them, for $150.  Galaxy Note 3's for the same.

If that is true then fuck mining.  I'm about to order one for myself.

tygarbyte, did that happen to you?  What did you order?

no - didn't happen to me, i bought stuff from aliexpress - but nothing of high value, and not from sellers that have no ratings - and shipping takes ages unless you pay for ems.

Yes I ordered one of these assumed it would arrived by now.  I hope it show up but it should have been here a week ago.
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These cards are not repeate NOT 280X, they are cheap GPUs with modified BIOS in order to show certain stats in windows. It can be easily proved by re-flashing the bios or just run CGminer on them and you will see exactly what they are capable of if even get recognized by the system.

Ali is full of knock offs. You can get knock off asic miners for cheap on there too, but who knows if they produce any suitable hash. AliExpress, does however have a money back if item not as claimed policy for some merchants, that being one of them.

So, judging by the feedback, it was a scam ;D

Yeah got an email that they suspended seller. Wondering if the site will refund or i will have to chargeback via cc.