If you just splashed out more than a grand on the latest, greatest, most powerful desktop graphics card on the market, you might be a bit miffed if you instead received… three backpacks in the box. And not particularly nice backpacks, mind you. A bizarre case of apparent theft from somewhere inside the GPU supply chain was first reported on Reddit, but has since been confirmed by manufacturer Zotac.

Reddit user JamesFerg650 claimed that they had gone to the much-anticipated retail opening of the new Micro Center store in Santa Clara, California last week in the hopes of tracking down an elusive and extremely expensive Zotac Nvidia GeForce RTX 5090 graphics card. The user managed to buy one—PCWorld was present and there were several thousand cards available, very cool!—only to discover

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