# Buyer pays $350 for broken RTX 4090 project only to find realistic fake GPU die and swapped memory — retained record

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source: [news](https://highsignal.app/data/news) (news:toms-hardware)  published 2026-10-12 11:30 ingested 2026-10-13 02:55

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