{"id":116794,"date":"2020-12-07T21:23:30","date_gmt":"2020-12-08T05:23:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/12\/over-300000-worth-of-rtx-3090s-were-stolen-out-of-a-factory-in-china"},"modified":"2020-12-07T21:23:30","modified_gmt":"2020-12-08T05:23:30","slug":"over-300000-worth-of-rtx-3090s-were-stolen-out-of-a-factory-in-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/12\/over-300000-worth-of-rtx-3090s-were-stolen-out-of-a-factory-in-china","title":{"rendered":"Over $300,000 worth of RTX 3090s were stolen out of a factory in China"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/over-300000-worth-of-rtx-3090s-were-stolen-out-of-a-factory-in-china.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m fairly certain that \u2018massive RTX 3090 heist\u2019 was not on your 2020 Bingo card. Our friends at Tom\u2019s Hardware originally reported that 40 cargo boxes containing RTX 3090s were stolen this morning from an MSI factory in China in what sounds like a GTA Online-esque heist.<\/p>\n<p>The stolen goods (which are valued at around $336,500) consist of roughly over 200 hard-to-find <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/how-and-where-to-buy-nvidia-rtx-3080-rtx-3090-rtx-3070\/\" target=\"_blank\">RTX 3090 graphics cards<\/a>. For context, the MSRP for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/nvidia-rtx-3090-review-founders-edition-benchmarks\/\">RTX 3090<\/a> is around $1,500 but due to the low stock and high demand, we\u2019ve seen them being sold for well over <a href=\"https:\/\/rover.ebay.com\/rover\/1\/711-53200-19255-0\/1?ff3=4&pub=5575033159&toolid=10001&campid=5337827784&customid=pcg-us-1459189031917342700&mpre=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ebay.com%2Fsch%2Fi.html%3F_from%3DR40%26_trksid%3Dp2322090.m570.l1313%26_nkw%3Drtx%2B3090%26_sacat%3D0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\">$2,000 on various auction sites<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m fairly certain that \u2018massive RTX 3090 heist\u2019 was not on your 2020 Bingo card. Our friends at Tom\u2019s Hardware originally reported that 40 cargo boxes containing RTX 3090s were stolen this morning from an MSI factory in China in what sounds like a GTA Online-esque heist. The stolen goods (which are valued at around [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-116794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116794","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116794"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116794\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}