CRYPTO MINERS SELLING REPAINTED GPUS ‘AS NEW’
Be careful who you buy from.
Some Chinese crypto miners are doing everything they can to offload their heavily used mining GPUs now that they’ve nothing left to mine. They are going to interesting lengths to sell their inventory, like repainting them and listing them as new on some retail sites. An investigation by Youtuber Iskandar Souza and Paulo Gomes claims that some third-party retailers are selling GPUs that appear new but have been touched up to hide the fact that they were used for crypto mining. The easiest method to tell if it’s had this treatment is 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
