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If you’re someone who ordered a GeForce RTX 3090 from MSI, you’ll probably have to wait a bit longer. While it’s bad enough that there is overwhelming demand and a critical shortage of the card, the matter is now compounded by the fact that a group has stolen cargo boxes full of RTX 3090s. Directly from the MSI China factory.
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According to the Taiwanese PC and laptop brand, the thieves had allegedly stolen 40 cargo boxes worth of RTX 3090 graphics cards, with a total value of approximately $ 336,500 (~ $ 1.37 million), directly from its manufacturing plant. in China. MSI has already notified local authorities about the matter, but in an effort to speed up the recovery process, it has also released a 100,000 yuan (~ RM62230) bounty for anyone with useful information on the stolen RTX 3090s.
MSI mainland China factory was robbed, they stole 40 RTX3090 boxes, the total value of 2200000RMB …… 😓
MSI has been officially announced and reported to the police, Reward of 100000 RMB for reporting effective information. pic.twitter.com/JWw8hOMioG– Xi Ti Ruo Li (@ GoFlying8) December 7, 2020
The theft was most likely an inside job, a point MSI is leaning heavily towards, especially since it says its security measures in and around the factory are pretty tight, but clearly not airtight. To that end, the company says it is willing to give more leniency to those who come forward and help locate the stolen graphics cards.
To reiterate, NVIDIA and its AiB partners are currently facing devastating demand for the GeForce RTX 30 series and cards like the RTX 3090 are extremely rare because of that. At that sad point, it would make sense for thieves to target the card, as they can then proceed to sell it at prices much higher than its official market rate.
(Source: Tom’s Hardware)
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