{"id":1100010,"date":"2023-01-25T15:04:00","date_gmt":"2023-01-25T20:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1100010"},"modified":"2023-01-25T15:04:00","modified_gmt":"2023-01-25T20:04:00","slug":"crypto-miners-are-scamming-gpu-buyers-by-painting-memory-chips-what-you-need-to-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1100010","title":{"rendered":"Crypto Miners Are Scamming GPU Buyers By Painting Memory Chips, What You Need To Know"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/hothardware.com\/news\/crypto-miners-scamming-gpu-buyers-by-painting-memory-chips\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/yellowing-memory-chips-thumb.jpg\" alt=\"Crypto Miners Are Scamming GPU Buyers By Painting Memory Chips, What You Need To Know\" align=\"left\" border=\"0\" hspace=\"10\" vspace=\"5\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nThere are many examples of why buyers should beware if they are considering perusing the used market for graphics cards. However, sellers of used, and possibly abused, old graphics cards have hit upon a new technique to deceive GPU hungry folk\u2014painting memory chips to make them look factory fresh.<\/p>\n<p>After prolonged use, and at sustained high&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Hot Hardware &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/hothardware.com\/news\/crypto-miners-scamming-gpu-buyers-by-painting-memory-chips\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Crypto Miners Are Scamming GPU Buyers By Painting Memory Chips, What You Need To Know<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are many examples of why buyers should beware if they are considering perusing the used market for graphics cards. However, sellers of used, and possibly abused, old graphics cards have hit upon a new technique to deceive GPU hungry &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1100010\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1100011,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[81,110],"tags":[82],"class_list":["post-1100010","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hot-hardware","category-unfiltered-rss","tag-hot-hardware"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1100010","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1100010"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1100010\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1100011"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1100010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1100010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1100010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}