News Nvidia RTX 4090 Skateboard Touted as Gnarliest Status Symbol

[Admin]

An Nvidia GeForce RTX 4090 makes an excellent skateboard deck, but we were happy to learn it was just a spare cooling shroud.

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[Geezer760]

Ridiculous, greed and gluttony at it's finest.

 

[bit_user]

I'm quite surprised the shroud is that strong. Even if it's aluminum, I'd expect it would quickly get bent out of shape. That's why I have a hard time believing they didn't make a look-alike with greater thickness and just transfer the decals, but then who would go to so much trouble?

 

[bit_user]

Ridiculous, greed and gluttony at it's finest.

Read the article.

Even right in the subtitle, it says:

"Thankfully, it was just a spare shroud after a water-cooling upgrade."
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They say it was taken from a pile of e-waste.

 

[BlackHarold]

Read the article.

Even right in the subtitle, it says:

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"Thankfully, it was just a spare shroud after a water-cooling upgrade."​

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They say it was taken from a pile of e-waste.

Usually what I found are the people who have to make such claims are lying, it's the internet people do everything for a reason or clout.

 

[USAFRet]

Usually what I found are the people who have to make such claims are lying, it's the internet people do everything for a reason or clout.

They make statements like that, due to the rabid derision from random people on the interwebs, that accuse them of greed and ridiculousness.

 

[Papusan]

"Thankfully, it was just a spare shroud after a water-cooling upgrade."

Good luck send in the card for repair if something happens without an proper condition cooler/shroud. Stupid is the new normal nowadays.

 

[bit_user]

Good luck send in the card for repair if something happens without an proper condition cooler/shroud. Stupid is the new normal nowadays.

If the manufacturer can determine the shroud was removed, they won't honor the warranty. So, it's pointless just to keep the shroud around for that reason.

If I were buying a water-cooled GPU from a system builder or someone reselling them with the waterblock pre-installed (one of which seems to be the case, here), I'd expect them to provide a warranty of their own to substitute for the manufacturer's warranty they voided.

 

[funguseater]

Ridiculous, greed and gluttony at it's finest.

LOL someone didn't read the article

 

[georgebaker437]

Things to do with your 2000 dollar GPU when the power connector "coasters" it and the manufacturer says it's not their fault.

 

[sitehostplus]

I'm quite surprised the shroud is that strong. Even if it's aluminum, I'd expect it would quickly get bent out of shape. That's why I have a hard time believing they didn't make a look-alike with greater thickness and just transfer the decals, but then who would go to so much trouble?

Or maybe he epoxied the shroud onto an actual skateboard? 😉