The sheer amount of times that people have received everything but the high-end GPU they ordered is frankly too absurd to count at this point. We’ve already seen data-analytics-id=”inline-link” href=”https://www.tomshardware.com/news/geforce-rtx-4090-newegg-switcheroo” data-before-rewrite-localise=”https://www.tomshardware.com/news/geforce-rtx-4090-newegg-switcheroo”>metal blocks being delivered instead of a graphics card, data-analytics-id=”inline-link” href=”https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/gpus/aorus-rtx-5090-package-from-amazon-was-allegedly-filled-with-macaroni-rice-and-an-old-obsolete-gpu-its-an-impasta” data-before-rewrite-localise=”https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/gpus/aorus-rtx-5090-package-from-amazon-was-allegedly-filled-with-macaroni-rice-and-an-old-obsolete-gpu-its-an-impasta”>pasta and rice packaged inside a 5090 box, and a data-analytics-id=”inline-link” href=”https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/gpus/nvidia-rtx-5070-ti-bought-from-amazon-had-the-box-contents-swapped-for-bag-of-suspicious-white-powder-pc-hardware-enthusiast-bamboozled-by-amazon-just-days-after-ordering-a-5090-with-no-gpu-core-finds-salt-instead” data-before-rewrite-localise=”https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/gpus/nvidia-rtx-5070-ti-bought-from-amazon-had-the-box-contents-swapped-for-bag-of-suspicious-white-powder-pc-hardware-enthusiast-bamboozled-by-amazon-just-days-after-ordering-a-5090-with-no-gpu-core-finds-salt-instead”>5070 Ti that was actually just a bag of salt. In comparison to that, receiving just a bland ol’ brick instead of an RTX 5080 seems almost uninspired, but that’s data-analytics-id=”inline-link” href=”https://www.reddit.com/r/pcmasterrace/comments/1nm8ah1/amazon_sent_me_a_brick_instead_of_a_5080/” target=”_blank” data-url=”https://www.reddit.com/r/pcmasterrace/comments/1nm8ah1/amazon_sent_me_a_brick_instead_of_a_5080/” referrerpolicy=”no-referrer-when-downgrade” data-hl-processed=”none”>exactly what happened to u/GlassHistorical5303.
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