Sorry Timmy, no new GPU for Christmas for you.
If you were in the market for a GPU, you’ve probably just been dealt a not-inconsiderable blow. Because a heist was just pulled on a truck hauling graphics cards only a few days ago.
Per Videocardz, a post to the EVGA forums by manager Jacob Freeman confirms that the truck hauling a number of EVGA GeForce RTX 30-series graphics cards was hit as it traveled between San Francisco, California to Southern California.
The good news is that the shipment wasn’t uniform in model; the cards on board ranged in MSRP from $329.99 to $1959.99. Meaning not everything on the truck was the high-end models gamers (and dumbass crypto miners) prize. EVGA also has the serial numbers of all of the affected cards, so any attempt to register one of these stolen GPUs will probably go over about as well as you’d imagine.
While I can’t think of any examples of such a heist happening on U.S. soil, they are somewhat more common in places that host factories, like China. I suppose the chip shortage had criminals reevaluate the their preconceptions on the value of a good GPU. Mostly due to the fact that the secondhand market value has been pretty wild of late.
Source: PC Gamer
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