Nvidia RTX 5090 buyer is literally cleaned out as box contains no GPU, just laundry detergent

GPU scams have involved replacing the graphics card with rocks or lumps of metal in the past, but this is a new one.
HotHardware

Gigabyte's Aorus Thunderbolt 5 External GPU Box With RTX 5090 Is Now Available

Today, Gigabyte introduced its Gigabyte Aorus RTX 5090 AI Box, a Thunderbolt 5-powered eGPU solution for the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 outfitted with 32GB of GDDR6X VRAM. As the name implies, it's being ...
TweakTown

GIGABYTE reveals AORUS RTX 5090 AI Box: external GPU supports 120Gbps with Thunderbolt 5

TL;DR: GIGABYTE introduced the AORUS RTX 5090 AI Box at Computex 2025, featuring the fastest external GPU solution with a GeForce RTX 5090, Thunderbolt 5 interface delivering up to 120Gbps bandwidth, ...
SlashGear

Worried Your Used NVIDIA RTX GPU Is Counterfeit? Here Are The Biggest Warning Signs

With the price of NVIDIA's 50-series RTX GPUs pushing way north of MSRP, the demand for used previous-generation RTX GPUs has increased among buyers looking for a good deal. And that demand is exactly ...
PC Gamer

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

Graphics Cards Redditor ordered an RTX 5080 from Amazon Prime and claims a near-identical RTX 5060 Ti with the stickers swapped was sent out Graphics Cards We all knew the RTX 5090 ran hot but not ...
Ars Technica

Watercooled or quiet 660ti or better GPU to fit in a mini-ITX box.

I've recently sold my gaming ITX box which was silent except for the gpu. I'm planning to build a next box in the next few months, probably after the summer. It needs to be portable and it needs to be ...