News AliExpress Sellers Painting Over Micron Memory on RTX 20-Series GPUs: Report

[Admin]

Brazilian YouTuber Paulo Gomes discovered that Chinese merchants are repainting the memory modules on GeForce RTX 20-series graphics cards.

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[thisisaname]

Welcome to two weeks ago.

 

[peachpuff]

People buy gpus from AliExpress? Lol

 

[kjfatl]

Stolen high quality memory chips?
Illegally imported or exported?
Remanufactured chips that failed on high end boards?

 

[thisisaname]

Just a continuation of miners painting chip on the cards to sell them as new.
https://videocardz.com/newz/gamers-...-painting-gpu-memory-to-make-them-look-as-new

 

[Sluggotg]

Aliexpress... Several Years ago I attempted to buy from their site. I had never heard of it and it was the only place I could find that item. I had to create an account enter all the info and at the end when I tried to complete the purchase it would not let me saying they don't ship to the USA.
That day the spam started. It took months to get them to stop. Every time you block and/or report their emails, they just spam you from a slightly different address.
Lesson Learned. (I am sure there will be lots of people telling me it's a great site and there is nothing flakey about it. If they won't stop spamming you, they are not legit.)