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#319572 9-May-2025 08:07

I know I'm having to wear glasses more these days, but am I missing something here........

FAULTY - Palit RTX 4090 Game Rock | Trade Me Marketplace

He has a bunch of cards, all dead, and wanting top dollar as if they're working.

Is he hopeful someone thinks one is working and pays the price ?

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#3371593 9-May-2025 08:13

Not just dead but with core and VRAM removed?
If you're looking to add coloured lights and extra fans in your PC, I can think of cheaper ways

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#3371616 9-May-2025 09:45

Rtx4090 prices are more expensive than when they were first sold for. Not sure how it is down here but in other markets all second hand are being bought and the core and mem sold to china and put into boards with 48GB to get around the GPU restrictions around AI.

The price is silly for just the heatsink and empty pcb but is relative to the $2000usd that the card still goes for with the important bits still attached. Yes they’re fishing for someone to buy it thinking it’s a full card, but they’ve fully disclaimed it so not much anyone can do.

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#3371664 9-May-2025 11:20

Maybe the person got scammed and is trying to recover some loss. The gpu and vram was being removed and repurposed in some AI server in china, and the card was then used in a scams on ebay.

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

Special Chinese Factories are Dismantling NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 Graphics Cards and Turning Them into AI-Friendly GPU Shape | TechPowerUp

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#3371733 9-May-2025 13:06

He replied to a query I put, saying 4090's sell for $4k+

So my thinking is why buy one of those anyway.......... newer cards out cheaper. OK, power/spec might be slightly lower but for the money....

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#3371745 9-May-2025 13:45

xpd:

He replied to a query I put, saying 4090's sell for $4k+

So my thinking is why buy one of those anyway.......... newer cards out cheaper. OK, power/spec might be slightly lower but for the money....

Might need to adjust market perspective . 4090 sits right between a 5080 and 5090. It has 50% more vram than the 5080 and 5090’s are going for $5.5-$6k nzd.

There isn’t really anything comparable until maybe the 5xxx super/ti comes out, especially for AI/ML purposes. Hence the demand, prices, and scams such as these.

If the seller has more than one of these, fair chance they are someone who is trying to make a sum from selling all parts of the card.