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Chinese repair channel Brother Zhang purchased a broken ASUS GeForce RTX 4090 for 1,500 RMB and discovered it contained a plastic piece made to resemble a GPU core with fake NVIDIA markings and non-functional scrap memory.
Chinese second-hand markets
Who
Chinese repair channel Brother Zhang
What
Chinese repair channel Brother Zhang purchased a broken ASUS GeForce RTX 4090 for 1,500 RMB and discovered it contained a plastic piece made to resemble a GPU core with fake NVIDIA markings and non-functional scrap memory.
When
Thu, 18 Jun 2026 23:18:06 GMT · 10h 9m ago
Where
Chinese second-hand markets ·
Why
The card was a scam designed to resemble a functional GPU for sale on second-hand markets.
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How this affects you
This incident highlights the prevalence of sophisticated counterfeit graphics cards in second-hand markets, posing risks to consumers and impacting market integrity for legitimate hardware.
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