AliExpress Sellers Painting Over Micron Memory on RTX 20-Series GPUs: Report
Nvidia’s GeForce RTX 20-series (Turing) graphics cards may no longer be on the list of best graphics cards, but they continue to make headlines. The seller is reportedly repainting the graphics card’s memory module again. However, the goal here is not to make mining graphics cards look new, but to hide the fact that some Turing graphics cards use older Micron GDDR6 memory modules, which can cause problems. .
Shortly after the launch of the GeForce RTX 2080 Ti, many early adopters reported that the new toy was displaying artifacts, causing some to die prematurely. Turing’s flagship debuted with Micron GDDR6 memory modules. However, Nvidia later replaced them with his Samsung GDDR6 ones. The replacement unit his affected GeForce RTX 2080 Ti owner received used Samsung GDDR6 memory, leading the affected user to believe that his early Micron GDDR6 memory modules were defective. became. Nvidia has confirmed that some of his early GeForce RTX 2080 Ti Founders Edition models were defective, but the chipmaker has not confirmed that the problem stems from his GDDR6 chips.
“Limited test escapes from early boards caused issues some customers experienced with the RTX 2080 Ti Founders Edition. increase. www.nvidia.com/support (opens in new tab) If you can live chat (or send an email) to Nvidia’s tech support team, we’ll take care of it,” an Nvidia representative wrote. forum post (opens in new tab) It’s titled “RTX 2080 Ti Founders Edition: Contact Us”.
The problem wasn’t limited to the GeForce RTX 2080 Ti graphics card with Micron memory, though. There have been some reports of the same issue with samples using Samsung memory. Unfortunately, this is a closed case and has not been confirmed.
brazilian youtuber Paulo Gomez (opens in new tab) discovered that the memory modules of the GeForce RTX 20 series graphics cards sold on AliExpress have been repainted. Recent discoveries have rekindled interest in the case of Micron chips. The graphics card appears to use the 9XB77 D9WCW chip. After peeling off the hot glue, Gomes realized that his memory module was his 8RA77 D9WCW revision associated with the batch that allegedly caused problems with the GeForce RTX 2080 Ti. Some samples used the 8PA77 variant.
The fact that the seller is disguising the original memory modules is reason for suspicion. Who knows where the memory modules came from or what their condition is? It’s a local workshop. Your graphics card might work for a while (or at least until AliExpress’s Buyer Protection Policy expires).
Unfortunately, AliExpress’ reputation has been tarnished over the past few years due to shady merchants selling counterfeit products such as 30TB portable SSDs and 16TB SSDs. It’s a shame because if you can find the real thing from the fakes, you’ll be able to find legitimate deals for processors and graphics cards.