News Amazon sold a fake RTX 4090 FrankenGPU cobbled together using a laptop GPU and 4080 board — scam card was found in a returns pallet deal

[lordmogul]

Tomshardware should make articles dedicated to frankenhardware.

Many youtubers show how to add more/faster memory to low tier gpus.

I remember people putting 12 MB on their 8 MB Voodoo 2 cards or soldering bigger VRM boards to cards.

And while that card was obviously fraud, the idea of having cards with swappable GPUs and memory sounds interesting. Like the MXM modules they used for a while in laptops or some odd memes I saw a couple years ago.

 

[kb7rky]

What? Amazon? Selling fake knock-offs of popular brands?

JEEVES! Fetch my fainting counch...I feel a spell coming on...

 

[pcitback]

Too bad we cant get more groups to step up and track these scammers down. I wish we could do that with the idiots in stores stealing and bear mace and hog tie them up for 100K bounties. Enough scammers on twatter and failbook to go after as well! Lets get our cash now!