I read the other day that there are shops in China that are buying up all the RTX5090s the can find, retrofitting them with heftier cooling, and loading them into AI server farm racks. Which explains why we can’t get one even if we were willing to pay the exorbitant price.
Yep.... saw the same and not going to pay 5K for a GPU. There are other places to find them for a reasonable price. Just gotta dig around. Scrounging is a good skill to have and I’m an expert at that.
I read the other day that there are shops in China that are buying up all the RTX5090s the can find, retrofitting them with heftier cooling, and loading them into AI server farm racks. Which explains why we can’t get one even if we were willing to pay the exorbitant price.
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Yesterday I saw such video on you tube. Chinese shop mass altering, upgrading high end video cards. With some you can micro-solder on more V-Ram. You can buy them on eBay or try at home. One you-tuber guy spent 30 hours w lots of Reds Bull before he had it working successfully with more V-Ram.