Oh great, crypto miners are selling repainted GPUs and passing them off as new

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Oh great, crypto miners are selling repainted GPUs and passing them off as new
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It's only a matter of time before miners in the US try this tactic to deceive buyers.

) claims that some third-party retailers in China are selling GPUs that appear new but have been touched up to hide the fact that they were used for crypto mining.

The Brazilian duo shared some tell-tale signs that reveal whether a GPU has been used or altered in some way. The easiest method was always to look for a yellow tint on the memory on the GPU, which is caused by one of two ways; prolonged use or they've been resoldered onto newer boards. The video shows the memory of a mining GPU at different stages of use, and you can see that the memory is black on the brand-new cards. The more they are used, the more yellow it gets. To hide this, sellers are repainting the memory chips on the GPUs, so they look new at a glance. In this

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