Gigabyte Decks Up Taiwanese Airport with Art Piece Made of Hundreds of Motherboards

[btarunr]

Motherboard giant Gigabyte contributed to a nerdtastic art piece put in place by authorities of the Taoyuan International Airport in Taiwan, Gigabyte's home country. A hall inside gate B7 of terminal 1 at the airport sports a wall-hung art-piece made entirely of Gigabyte motherboards, consisting of two lines, and a circle. The circle, made of identical motherboards, looks like a silicon wafer, and from a distance, each motherboard looks like a chip die on that wafer. A map of the island is also carved out of a motherboard on that circle.

Next to it is a large "Made in Taiwan" sign, also made by Gigabyte motherboards. This art piece is said to be using more than 1,200 motherboards, which of course are dead, returned for replacement pieces. After years of war and poverty, Taiwan has emerged as a major hub of semiconductor and electronics industries, there are ongoing efforts such as this one to propagate Taiwan as a stable investment destination, and in a pretty geeky way, we might add.

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Source: VR-Zone (http://vr-zone.com/articles/taoyuan-international-airport-t1-installation-art-piece-built-from-1200-gigabyte-motherboards/10364.html)

[Bundy]

That second picture would be great in a "how to build a PC" thread.

[LAN_deRf_HA]

Ugh. A painful reminder that despite what I think of their color schemes now, it used to be a lot worse. That yellow/red is killing me.

[Mussels]

that is just cool.

[HossHuge]

They're doing a major overhaul of the airport here. Thank god, cause it's terrible.

I think it's a cool idea but for most people they won't give a poo poo.

[TheLostSwede]

That's most likely the old Terminal 1 building, as it's being refurbished, while Terminal 2 is unlikely to get much of a makeover.

There are plenty similar things in the airport already, such as Giant bicycles, another big brand out of Taiwan that most people don't know is actually from Taiwan.

[MoonPig]

Good job their dead, otherwise that would be a holy insult to anyone that can't afford a decent board, lol.

Tis cool, but very... very... very... geeky.

I'd hate to be there with the family and know the model names... urgh.

[buggalugs]

SO thats where all the RMA boards end up?

[csendesmark]

I like this creative use of waste mobo-s :)

[btarunr]

SO thats where all the RMA boards end up?

RMA boards that are beyond repair are normally sent for component reclaimation. All working components that can be soldered out (such as capacitors, chokes, slots, connectors, port clusters), are salvaged.

[FreedomEclipse]

when i see this post - the only thing that goes through my head is this youtube video....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OIh78GiTqrE

skip to 0:49 - do note there is a little foul language but i have an irish cousin thats only about 6or7 years of age that does more cursing/swearing then i do in a year and i tend to do a lot of swearing

"American Components, Russian Components -ALL MADE IN TAIWAN!!"

[Bjorn_Of_Iceland]

makes sense.. they wont be able to make keychains out of them anyway

[pr0n Inspector]

I thought it would be "Don't touch my junk" made with motherboards.

[bear jesus]

I agree cool in a geeky way.

SO thats where all the RMA boards end up?

:laugh:

[H82LUZ73]

wow if that is RMA boards then i`m sticking with ASUS.;)

[WarEagleAU]

Cool but such a waste of PCBS :cringe: Unless these are like RMAs or DOAs.

[bear jesus]

Cool but such a waste of PCBS :cringe: Unless these are like RMAs or DOAs.

The link says they are scrap cards so i assume all dead in one way or another that's not worth fixing.

[Kreij]

I guess I'm just not impressed. Anyone can screw computer components to a wall. Heck there is even clothing made from IC chips and the like.

If the sign was actually working as a mega-processor crunching machine ... it would be impressive indeed.

[n-ster]

to propagate Taiwan as a stable investiment destination

You mean investment right?

[(FIH) The Don]

well atleast thats something good GB boards can be used for :laugh:

[roast]

I think thats pretty awesome!

[FreedomEclipse]

they could have melted the PCBs down and made some Lego out of it IMO - some of the best inventions ever were made out of lego first before being taken and put into full production. that way they would be putting back the seeds of innovation and dreams back into the community where the futures of technology gather around - playing in the sand pit and making some poor kid eat his crayons....

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and thats perfectly viable as PCB's are made of Epoxy

[arnoo1]

cool, but plz donate me one of those gigabyte p55 mobo's

[btarunr]

cool, but plz donate me one of those gigabyte p55 mobo's

They're a little too big to hold paper, don't you think?

[arnoo1]

They're a little too big to hold paper, don't you think?

i think so.., lol

[[H]@RD5TUFF]

Huh must be all the boards RMA'd because of DOA.:laugh:

[Ser-J]

...it would have been much better if they actually had CPUs Ram and heatsinks installed on all these mobos....

[FreedomEclipse]

...it would have been much better if they actually had CPUs Ram and heatsinks installed on all these mobos....

I personally dont think it makes any difference at all - plus Gigabytes ego is already big enough without them having to go through the effort of plugging additional dead components in that are donated from other manufacturers as they would have to say it was a 'team effort' rather then 'look at me!! I did all this!!!' and the probably dont want to do that as its all about Gigabyte and no one else but Gigabyte.

they probably didnt consult any of the other manufacturers for additional dead components but imho having a cpu or ram plugged in makes very little difference in how it looks aesthetically so there probably wouldnt be any point

[JF-AMD]

Pretty cool, I will have to look for that next time. But I still prefer the Hello Kitty gate in terminal 2. Hello Kitty rocks.

[n-ster]

http://www.latedeparture.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/3864253933_468db8e577-400x300.jpg

:rockout:

[JF-AMD]

not only did I go to that gate, but I also flew the hello kitty plane from taipei to tokyo

[bear jesus]

http://www.latedeparture.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/3864253933_468db8e577-400x300.jpg

:rockout:

not only did I go to that gate, but I also flew the hello kitty plane from taipei to tokyo

:roll: That's so awesome

[Bjorn_Of_Iceland]

Quite ironic actually, they show dead boards, and saying theyre made in taiwan..

[Hayder_Master]

nice idea doing for dead electronic stuff, better than Bury the Silicon in earth