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The teardown reveals that under theMSIVentus heatsink was a board with no GPU.

However, graphics cards without their silicon are completely useless.

An MSI RTX 4090 with no AD102 die

And in this case, all the buyer bought was an MSI heatsink attached to a completely blank PCB.

However, should you consider buying used then you’ll need to approach the transaction with caution.

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