Visiontek Mystery Box ( $5, $10, $20, $50 *Premium GPU?* )

TheGardenTool said:
You can cheat some. Packing list should be itemized for what is included. I think the big stuff I got a couple speakers, 1080p webcam, video capture card, a usb-c dock and a 3870x2. Unfortunately don’t think I got a high enough watt PSU left to use with my other two 3870 for a 3 card quad crossfire! Was hoping even for a budget newer card to be able to test some other stuff but it is what it is.
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They actually sent you a 3870X2? That's a collectors item, sounds like a win to me :p
 
NattyKathy said:
They actually sent you a 3870X2? That's a collectors item, sounds like a win to me :p
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Yes indeed. Only downside is the white box packaging but the accessories were all new in sealed packaging. Quite chunky but I imagine a whole lot more efficient than the two I have around that I ran in Crossfire for so long.

Once I went through the whole box I also found what appears to a passive GT630 as well that wasn’t on the packaging invoice slip. Wonder if everybody was getting a low-end nVidia with certain boxes.
 
TheGardenTool said:
Yes indeed. Only downside is the white box packaging but the accessories were all new in sealed packaging. Quite chunky but I imagine a whole lot more efficient than the two I have around that I ran in Crossfire for so long.

Once I went through the whole box I also found what appears to a passive GT630 as well that wasn’t on the packaging invoice slip. Wonder if everybody was getting a low-end nVidia with certain boxes.
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is it the Kepler refresh?

Well,at least it's not as ancient as the gt210.
 
defaultluser said:
is it the Kepler refresh?

Well,at least it's not as ancient as the gt210.
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Not 100% sure. Was just a quick glance at it going through the box. Could 100% not be what I think it is. Didn’t have any markings on it other than nVidia and then stickers I haven’t researched yet. :-/
 
I got some garbage, literal waste of $50. I probably would've been less upset if I just burnt a $50 bill.

Got the same trash graphics card that is virtually useless, the tiny useless Pitbull speaker, and a docking station. There is also an SD card in the box with the speaker that I just glanced at, I think it said 16gb.

Edit: It's a 4gb SD card for the speaker. I'll look at the speaker tomorrow. Maybe it's useful, maybe it's not... (probably not).

I can imagine zero instances where this graphics card would get installed.

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Edit2: Another "wut". This docking station is $200 on Amazon for some reason... I don't think I'll use it, maybe I can sell it on Facebook market place and get my $50 back.
 
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Bruh... what the hell am I going to do with a PCI graphics card. Last time I used one of these was not only 20 years ago but it was a massive mistake even at the time, a PCI Voodoo4.
 
Tengis said:
Bruh... what the hell am I going to do with a PCI graphics card. Last time I used one of these was not only 20 years ago but it was a massive mistake even at the time, a PCI Voodoo4.
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I feel you. Geforce 2 mx200. Finally I would have a second decent pc for someone to play on. Yeah that went well. Now that I think of it I believe I hate that entire lineup. They put the budget MX cards on motherboards and PCI cards in the masses. The PCI Geforce 4 MX cards had SDRAM for video memory and Nvidia knew the level of crap those cards amounted to. Didn't matter if they had DDR also I don't care if I am wrong and some of them did. Stupid fun fact I had a buddy that had to buy a Gateway PC because his mom would not let him build a PC. Anyways the computer was suppose to have an AGP slot with a Geforce MX 200 in it. PC came in with no AGP slot plus no dedicated GPU. Intel Extreme Graphics awesomeness. Buddy already had a Geforce 3 he was going to drop in once he got it, but with no slot that wasn't going to happen. Gateway exchanged it out for a faster Cpu and luckily an AGP slot for the same price. He was going to be nice and give me the Geforce 2, but even the new system didn't come with it. Now that I got completely of topic run a nailed threw it because it was never useful to begin with.
 
sparky1_2007 said:
In for 2x of the $20 boxes and 1x $50, let's see what I get whenever it arrives
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You are going to get four PCI graphics cards (for SLI of course), a crappy chinese speaker with no Bluetooth from Aliexpress, a 4gb SD card, an old Gateway mousepad, and some smelling salts so that you can awaken from your nightmare after opening the box.
 
Tengis said:
You are going to get four PCI graphics cards (for SLI of course), a crappy chinese speaker with no Bluetooth from Aliexpress, a 4gb SD card, an old Gateway mousepad, and some smelling salts so that you can awaken from your nightmare after opening the box.
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Close. I got 4gb of DDR3 (2x2gb), a cheap bluetooth speaker and a USB C dock.

So far, the only thing that seems to be panning out as a winner is the USB C dock. The speaker sounds good, but shuts off after a few seconds, haha

and the $50 box just shipped, should be here later this week I think
 
So, got a 1TB ssd (which I can absolutely use), laughable Pitbull Mr Worldwide cube speaker, and this premium video card. I think they are trying to tell me something.
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I received a 120GB NVMe SSD, the tiny PitBull bluetooth speaker with Micro SD card slot, and an NVIDIA FX 5500 AGP 256MB with video out. This was the $20 box.

I will be installing this in my late grandfather's Pentium 4 HP prebuilt. Once I get around to picking it up from grandma's house.

I am satisfied for $20.
 
As a word of warning, you may want to throw away those smaller Bluetooth speakers. I noticed that mine would not charge/run off battery at all. Upon cracking the unit open I found a 600 mAh lipo cell with a date code of 2013 that had swollen. It was epoxied in and was a total pain in the ass to remove.

Given how wonderful the tiny speaker sounds anyway, it's probably not worth fixing.
 
NobleX13 said:
As a word of warning, you may want to throw away those smaller Bluetooth speakers. I noticed that mine would not charge/run off battery at all. Upon cracking the unit open I found a 600 mAh lipo cell with a date code of 2013 that had swollen. It was epoxied in and was a total pain in the ass to remove.

Given how wonderful the tiny speaker sounds anyway, it's probably not worth fixing.
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I hadn't gone as far as figuring out how to open it yet, but I did notice pretty quickly it was only working while charging. Did leave it on a charger about 24h just to make sure and still dead. Figured it's been sitting around on a shelf long enough that the battery was toast. A bit of a shame it's epoxied. Was going to give it to one of the kiddos who likes to listen to music in the shower as then it wouldn't be such a big deal if it got trashed from humidity.
 
I got 2 of the $20, 1 $5, and a $50. The $50 is still on its way but the rest have come. What I got so far is a VT200 usb-c docking station, 480gb sata 3 ssd, an ATI X1300 256gb ddr2 and (of course) the Pitbull bluetooth speaker. I'll update when the $50 comes I reckon it'll be ram because the packing weight is only 1lb
 
Zepher said:
it's taped to the side of the box.
Mine just had the Ram listed, but had that cheap GPU in the box as well.
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OK, thanks I get it now. I misunderstood. I was hoping that they put the packing list on the website so you could see what you were going to get after it shipped. The packing list is still nice for in case you get some oddball card that is hard to identify.


I got my first order today: 1 - $50 box and 1 - $20 box. All I got was a 480GB SSD and a big docking port thing. Not sure what I'll do with either one. No video cards at all, just the two items. Not super happy so far but I have another order on the way.
 
Icecold said:
Seeing all the (mostly) useless stuff everybody is getting.. and now that the $50 box is back in stock.. I had to buy one :ROFLMAO: I'll post back if I get anything interesting. Mad[H]atter if you still want one of the $50 ones they're in stock right now.
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They gave away the stuff they wanted to get rid of initially, so now the new stock will have better stuff that they wanted to keep in the first place. Or the other way around where it's stuff they were going to throw in the trash lol
 
Icecold said:
Seeing all the (mostly) useless stuff everybody is getting.. and now that the $50 box is back in stock.. I had to buy one :ROFLMAO: I'll post back if I get anything interesting. Mad[H]atter if you still want one of the $50 ones they're in stock right now.
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Thanks for the flag, got one!
 
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