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Scalpers across Asia stripping RTX 4090 cards from pre-built PCs to smuggle into China | Retailers wanted to stop scalpers but even full systems remain desirable.
Retailers wanted to stop scalpers but even full systems remain desirable.
According to a report shared by MyDrivers, people in countries neighboring China have been buying full pre-built PC systems equipped with GeForce RTX 4090 GPUs only to strip out the graphics cards and sell them into the Chinese market despite US sanctions forbiddingthe practice. Apparently, the small-time entrepreneurs of Asia have been snatching up stocks of desktop GeForce RTX 4090 cards as quickly as they hit shelves to sell to the sanctions-hit Chinese. Behind the headlining desktop PC stripping, to get RTX 4090 cards for China is obviously the recently implemented U.S. sanctions, which now cover consumer GPUs exceeding certain performance limits.
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