Fake & Shady GeForce Graphics Cards Doing The Round In Retail, NVIDIA Begins Crackdown
NVIDIA has commenced a major crackdown on shady graphics card companies which are offering fake GeForce graphics cards.
The time of sky-high pricing on graphics cards is still somewhat here due to inflation, but we can no longer blame the cryptocurrency markets for that. However, a series of new graphics card makers are starting to emerge out of nowhere with brands like Bingying, Corn, Jieshuo, & Mllse which are attempting to sell their wares among larger companies like ASUS, Colorful, GALAX, Gigabyte, MSI, and Zotac.
The only problem is NVIDIA never heard of the first set of companies, even if the manufacturers are selling similar models. Team Green has had enough and is working with e-sellers to eliminate the problem at the retail level.
Retail outlets such as eBay were notorious for sellers promising that they were selling a fake graphics card as the real thing for extremely cheap, and now the problem has spread to large retailers. Amazon, Newegg, and others are finding a wealth of fake GPUs selling for meager prices.
Today, with all that we are taught about purchasing online, we would throw caution immediately if it did not have a name like Gainson, Injoy, Maxsun, and Yeston, which may not be at the top of the list of household GPU names, to choose from. However, new PC builders looking to save money and are naive to what they are purchasing will end up with a "lemon."
So, how are these cards allowed on the market? Unfortunately, used GPUs escalated in quantity after the cryptocurrency years, with several digital currency enthusiasts, bankers, and others stuck with hundreds of GPUs that people avoided purchasing.
It is well known that if you buy a used graphics card from a crypto-miner, the life span could be equated to
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