A TechTuber and GPU enthusiast by the name of Blighted Agent recently posted a teardown of an NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Founders Edition that they said to have purchased for a measly US$50 (~RM204). Sounds too good to be true? Well, it actually was.
Instead of the uniquely V-shaped PCB that NVIDIA developed for the RTX 3080 and 3090 GPUs, what Blighted Agent found hiding beneath the Founders Edition cooler shroud was a butchered-up PCB belonging to a heavily modified Gigabyte Radeon R9 280 3GB. And when we say butchered, we mean that whoever committed the act had taken a saw blade to the top half of the GPU.
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