TL;DR: A Japanese technician exposed a scam involving fake GeForce RTX 4090 graphics cards, where RTX 3090 and 3080 GPUs were laser-engraved with counterfeit AD102 labels. These modded cards were ...

Why it matters: The surprisingly common practice of replacing a high-end graphics card's GPU with a different one from a cheaper card, borking it in the process, isn't going away. A Chinese repair ...

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Gaming PC prices are weird. Although the RTX 5070 graphics card has a higher MSRP than the Radeon RX 9070 ($549 / $499, respectively), prebuilt gaming PCs housing those GPUs aren't reflecting that ...