Generique graphics cards? wut?

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Hello everyone , again :p

Previously , my friend bought a Gigabyte HD 7950 WF Edition which had a weird custom 7970 PCB , so he couldn't get a waterblock for it. So he's going to sell that card , and he was looking at this: http://www.waeplus.co.uk/item/207735/Radeon-HD-7970-OEM---3-GB-GDDR5---PCI-Ex?ref=criteo

It looked sort of odd , first off , the company I've never heard of; Generique. French misseur? I don't know what OEM means and thats rather cheap for a 7970 isn't it?!

Do you think this would use the reference HD 7970 PCB so he can buy a waterblock for it? 

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It is definitely a reference PCB; the company "generique" is probably just an original AMD OEM.

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You seem to be quite knowledgable man o_o . So it's probably just AMD sourcing different parts from manufacterers (derp spelling) and putting them all together to make an OEM card. Well I'll be damned.

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More like AMD producing the card themselves according to their standard spec, which all reference 7970s follow.

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From what I've heard, it's not a brand. It just means it's a generic version of the GPU. Who knows, the internet doesn't explain it, so neither can I

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well it's clearly a reference card, maybe they just can't spell generic, or french makes it sound fancy

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I agree.. friench fa sembrare di fantasia , friench makes it sound fancy. 

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Oui, c'est vrai que "generique" est "Generic" en anglais mais on n'est pas un company comme ca en France. Je regardais le meme marque avant, mais je pense qu'il est juste un carte graphique de référence.

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I don't speak Al Qaeda.

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+1

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You mean le Francais? C'est le... something something. I give up.

Anyways no doubt -that 7970 is generique.