Someone scored an RTX 4070 Super for $49 on Amazon

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Someone scored an RTX 4070 Super for $49 on

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The RTX 4070 Super is one of the best graphics cards you can buy, and it has a price to match, with most models going for $600 on

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. However, one lucky Redditor scored a model for just $49. No, it wasn’t some steep *****, and most people would see a price like that and assume it’s a scam. But sure enough,

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a Gigabyte RTX 4070 Super Gaming OC for $48.94 on

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, the card

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You should absolutely assume that a price that’s too good to be true is a scam on

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. We’ve seen just this year how scammers can infiltrate the third-party listings on

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to sell fake graphics cards, but this listing for the RTX 4070 Super was different. It was sold and shipped by

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Canada and there was only one card in stock, suggesting it was either mismarked or someone seriously needed some extra warehouse space.

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The

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poster, u/Vincenz_OB, says that they confirmed the card is recognized as an RTX 4070 Super in Windows, and that it’s absolutely crushing the performance of their previous RTX 3060 — not a surprise given the performance we saw in our RTX 4070 Super review. Nvidia may offer the RTX 4080 Super and RTX 4090 above $1,000, but for most gamers, the RTX 4070 Super ******** the go-to option for a high-end gaming PC that isn’t egregiously expensive.

In the U.S., the Gaming OC model from Gigabyte is listed at $630, and it’s sold out on

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Canada. Some commenters say that the price shifted from the 93% off the original poster saw to 6% off before going out of stock, suggesting that the discount was flipped before the listing went live.

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Although it’s easy to get green with envy over such a great deal on a GPU, that doesn’t mean you should immediately buy any graphics card that has a good price on

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. Scams are still abundant, especially among third-party GPU sellers on

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, so make sure to do your due diligence before buying a new graphics card. If you happen to spot a glitch for a product shipped and sold by

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, though, there might be some value to rolling the dice — at least if this deal is anything to go by.

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#scored #RTX #Super #

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