Buyer beware: scammers are selling useless Nvidia RTX 4090 graphics cards that can’t actually play games

News Snapshot:

Buyers of Nvidia’s RTX 4090 flagship GPU have been scammed in the past, and another victim of a graphics card sting has just been flagged up. Hong Kong-based HKEPC reports (hat tip to VideoCardz) that a reader of the site purchased a second-hand RTX 4090 at a popular online marketplace (Carousell). The buyer found that the graphics card didn’t work – no fans spun up, and it appeared to be dead when installed in their PC. Upon investigation, it was discovered that the graphics card was missing a rather crucial component – the GPU chip itself (oh, and some VRAM...