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Update: Aug 11, 7am (ET): Corrected the timeline of the article to reflect the shipped graphics card did not take one year to arrive
Another day, and another victim has been scammed out of an RTX 5090, this time from Amazon in France. Nice-Screen-4193 on the PCMasterRace subreddit shared their story of how they ordered an MSI RTX 5090 directly from Amazon, only to receive a non-functioning RTX 5090 with a missing GPU core and memory modules.
After waiting for “what felt like a year”, they finally received the RTX 5090 they ordered. The box was allegedly perfectly sealed with no signs of tampering. However, once the GPU was inspected, the redditor discovered the four screws surrounding the GPU core had been stripped. Additionally, the gold finger on the bottom allegedly appeared dull and used, suggesting to them that the GPU had been used and not new.
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The redditor hooked up the “used” RTX 5090 to his setup, and lo and behold, the GPU failed to power up, with not even a single fan spinning. The GPU’s power failure ultimately led the Redditor to inspect the GPU’s internals with a flashlight, revealing that the RTX 5090 was missing a core and GDDR7 memory modules.