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Few more beasts from local aftermarket, nice 3d printed stock cooler modification:

Well, it was good, but I think not the best, because for today it would cost more than $1000 if you count inflation. Radeon 7950/7970 were also actual for a long time, some people still use them for gaming. The same for R9 290X, and billions of cheap RX480 8Gb, you can still find them everyehre...

Behold! The weakest and slowest GTX 1070 of all :respect: Why it's weakest? It's another Engineering Sample and somehow this one has only 1152 shaders of 1920, so shader count is like GTX 1060 3Gb version, but bus and memory are from normal GTX 1070 - 256bit and 8Gb. Works perfectly...

I've seen one sold on a local aftermarket, but it was a bit expensive for me. Also there were few sold on ebay.

I assume those GPU's comes from broken and QS laptops, it's a country with over 1 billion people living there and it should be plenty e-waste including thousands of broken laptops with 4080M and 4090M.

Some Pascal ES/QS videocards: Geforce GTX 1060 3Gb FE ES/QS, GTX 1060 6Gb FE ES/QS, GTX 1070 FE ES/QS. As far as I know there was no official Founders version of 3Gb card. Next one is Geforce GTX 1060 Gb, ES/QS, looks and acts like usual GTX 1060: Last one is Geforce GTX 1070...

Feast of Geforce GTX 780: So, what we have here: first is Geforce GTX780 Qualification sample/Engineering sample: Looks and acts like usual Geforce GTX 780, fully working condition. Next one is GTX780 Ti Qualification sample/Engineering sample: Also works fine, passed all...

ATI Radeon 2900XTX Rev21:

ATI Radeon HD5970 Engineering Sample. Bought it on ebay as "for parts or not working", but it was fixed by my good friend and now it works fine: Both GPU's are ok, crossfire works: Funny thing: after card was delivered I disassembled it to clean from the dust and to apply new thermal...

Hi. I have a queston: flashed my RTX3060 using the BIOS from chineese RTX3060M on a desktop board. I made a backup copy of original BIOS, but problem is that I can not flash it back, all I got is this message: "The PCI BAR assignment for the processed device is invalid". What I did: tried first...

Here is one more beast from the local aftermarket:

Better actually because of normal cooling system. I have the same card in my collection, I think it was made 999 of them. Funny thing - it was no thermal paste on GPU's when I disaasembled my card and even no traces on heat sink, they were like new.

Some more bizarre methods to modify cooling system from local aftermarket, this time it's super crazy:

It's GTX1070 engineering sample with full metal cooler.

From local aftermarket: