In one case, the graphics card in question was the Gigabyte GeForce RTX 4080 16GB Aero OC, a custom variant of the GeForce RTX 4080 that retailed for around $1,199 at launch. The seller claimed the graphics card was not functional and wanted to offload it for just $143.50 on Xianyu, a popular second-hand marketplace in China.
So this isn’t even an American retailer carrying bad cards? It’s a Chinese second-hand seller peddling admitted non-functional cards for refurbishment. I guess the general advice is good and knowing what to look out for is useful, but it feels niche.
Sort of the dig with these stories. Universal problems get spun as Uniquely Bad Country problems and “Chinese engineer gives his fellow enthusiasts good advice” becomes “Don’t trust hardware from Bad Country”
So this isn’t even an American retailer carrying bad cards? It’s a Chinese second-hand seller peddling admitted non-functional cards for refurbishment. I guess the general advice is good and knowing what to look out for is useful, but it feels niche.
The key point of the article is: “China-based fraudsters”, so ‘bad china’ ™, and the rest of the content was just an excuse for that purpose…
Americans are going to be so fucked when the only companies producing consumer hardware at scale at labeled “Bad China Companies”.
I remember people hating Japan and Korea back in the '80s, before Sony and Samsung killed Magnavox and strangled Phillips.
I guess time is a flat circle
This has been uncovered by Brother Zhang… who obviously has, uh… an anti-China agenda… 🙄
https://www.youtube.com/@fydn
I don’t think Zhang wrote the headline.
Sort of the dig with these stories. Universal problems get spun as Uniquely Bad Country problems and “Chinese engineer gives his fellow enthusiasts good advice” becomes “Don’t trust hardware from Bad Country”