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Repair shop reveal GeForce RTX 4090 Scam with relabeled 3080 Ti GPU inside

The GPU industry has seen various mega scale scamming attempts. These  scams follow the cryptocurrency mining which leads to overstock of graphics cards sold to customers.

Various scamming method used sending cards without any components , GPU resoldering to brand new PCBs.

One scamming attempt is switching GA102 GPU with AD102 for different purpose, overclocking and modding.

How one thing can lead to good and opposite.

Scamming attempts are easy to spot as GPU and memory can show severe signs like yellow tint.

Graphics RTX 4090 TUF by ASUS seemed original.but underneath they saw completely unexpected.

Removing the GPU and inspecting it closely it became clear that processor labelled as AD102 was not GPU at all.Someone has polished the die to remove the label.