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Micro Center says it could be an issue at source in China, which means there could be far more than 32 cases of missing GPUs.
What started out as just another gamer finding their brand new graphics card missing and replaced in the box by some random piece of junk, has turned into a potentially big headache for Zotac and a compromised Chinese factory shipping not-RTX 5090s out the front door.
Late last week one redditor posted about their poor luck in having been sold a brand new Zotac RTX 5090 Solid OC card from a new Micro Center store in Santa Clara, only to get it home some four hours later to discover that their dream GPU was, in fact, "3 crossbody backpacks inside rather than my 5090."
The inevitable regret at not having opened the box in store or at least captured the unboxing on video was washed away the following day when they returned to the store where staff had actually seen their reddit post already and had found 31 other boxed up backpacks within Zotac RTX 5090 packaging.
The second update post details the follow up trip and thanks the staff at the Santa Clara Micro Center for their efforts and the speed with which they replaced the OP's graphics card.
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What started out as just another gamer finding their brand new graphics card missing and replaced in the box by some random piece of junk, has turned into a potentially big headache for Zotac and a compromised Chinese factory shipping not-RTX 5090s out the front door.
Late last week one redditor posted about their poor luck in having been sold a brand new Zotac RTX 5090 Solid OC card from a new Micro Center store in Santa Clara, only to get it home some four hours later to discover that their dream GPU was, in fact, "3 crossbody backpacks inside rather than my 5090."
The inevitable regret at not having opened the box in store or at least captured the unboxing on video was washed away the following day when they returned to the store where staff had actually seen their reddit post already and had found 31 other boxed up backpacks within Zotac RTX 5090 packaging.
The second update post details the follow up trip and thanks the staff at the Santa Clara Micro Center for their efforts and the speed with which they replaced the OP's graphics card.
Over $90,000 worth of RTX 5090 GPUs have been replaced in-box by crossbody backpacks at just one Silicon Valley Micro Center
Micro Center says it could be an issue at source in China, which means there could be far more than 32 cases of missing GPUs.
