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Repair channel buys ASUS RTX 4090 for $222 and finds plastic die with fake NVIDIA markings

The card looked real until the thermal paste came off, revealing a plastic block with etched markings and a PCB full of ...
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Scammers are now laser-engraving GA102 GPUs onto fake RTX 4090 cards, sold for $1400 each

Use left and right arrow keys to seek audio. A user has been scammed with not one, not two, but four different GeForce RTX 4090 graphics cards, with fake AD102 GPU labels being laser-engraved onto RTX ...
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Scammers are selling fake RTX 4090 graphics cards with plastic GPU dies and missing memory

WTF?! With the AI boom driving GPU prices to record highs, scammers are capitalizing by flooding the market with counterfeit graphics cards. A new report from China suggests that fraudsters are now ...
TechSpot

Scammers are selling fake RTX 4090 graphics cards without GPU and memory chips

In context: The RTX 4090 is one of the most coveted graphics cards on the market, but its exorbitantly high price forces many gamers to seek more affordable second-hand units. Scammers have been ...
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Scammers in China sell $222 RTX 4090 with fake GPU die made out of plastic instead of real silicon

Nvidia dupes keep getting more sophisticated as time goes on, with the latest example using a plastic die instead of real ...