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PC Gamer
Dave James

Over $90,000 worth of RTX 5090 GPUs have been replaced in-box by crossbody backpacks at just one Silicon Valley Micro Center

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Zotac RTX 5090 Solid OC graphics card.

What started out as just another gamer finding their brand new graphics card missing and replaced in the box by some random piece of junk, has turned into a potentially big headache for Zotac and a compromised Chinese factory shipping not-RTX 5090s out the front door.

Late last week one redditor posted about their poor luck in having been sold a brand new Zotac RTX 5090 Solid OC card from a new Micro Center store in Santa Clara, only to get it home some four hours later to discover that their dream GPU was, in fact, "3 crossbody backpacks inside rather than my 5090."

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