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Over $90,000 worth of RTX 5090 GPUs have been replaced in-box by crossbody backpacks at just one Silicon Valley Micro Center
Micro Center says it could be an issue at source in China, which means there could be far more than 32 cases of missing GPUs.
What started out as just another gamer finding their brand new graphics card missing and replaced in the box by some random piece of junk, has turned into a potentially big headache for Zotac and a compromised Chinese factory shipping not-RTX 5090s out the front door. Related articles The second update post details the follow up trip and thanks the staff at the Santa Clara Micro Center for their efforts and the speed with which they replaced the OP's graphics card. Now he's back, writing about the nightmarish graphics card market, CPUs with more cores than sense, gaming laptops hotter than the sun, and SSDs more capacious than a Cybertruck.
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