Miners selling GPUs with repainted chips
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Apparently, one way to check if a graphics card is heavily mined is by looking for yellowing on the GPU or VRAM. But miners are repainting the VRAM chips to hide the mark and make the cards look new.
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You can't tell by just looking at it, it's very well done, and in the video you can see how they give it a little heat first so it doesn't jump because they're touching it.
(Source: Iskandar Souza)After washing them with high-pressure water, they put on makeup and sell them at a common market price...
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as if the second-hand gpu market were not already a filthy and nauseating den, now these scammers come along and sow doubt with the new ones. This is great news for manufacturers who need to sell the overpriced junk that accumulates in their warehouses. There is still a long way to go before things return to normal, for now intel has presented disastrous quarterly results today and has fallen 8% on the stock market. This is going to be a great year for pc upgrades.
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@palotes I'm not so sure.
The memory module manufacturers already said they thought they would lower production to maintain prices.
The GPU manufacturers will do exactly the same.
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well, I don't know about Clipper. Production cuts have a limit called economies of scale. Intel's poor results show that maintaining prices by cutting production is not synonymous with success. Removing shifts or having factories closed has a very high cost, something that only compensates if the drop in demand is slight. If the drop in demand is moderate, a manufacturer obtains more benefits by selling more quantity cheaper than less quantity more expensive. And as I said on another occasion, that's while maintaining the cartel of the 4 cats that manufacture each component. When they start to get into trouble and really start competing with each other, the panorama is going to get funny. Now they are holding out because the big shots agree on prices among themselves. When the shareholders start to get annoyed, you'll see how quickly they look for formulas to increase profits, and that goes through lowering prices to increase sales and improve economies of scale.
