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Facebook X Reddit Flipboard Email 0 us Consumer RTX stock in the US many other countries) to be virtually at the moment, despite claims that production still ongoing. So, happening to all those new consumer cards? A video reportedly taken inside a Chinese factory have the answer. Posted HKEPC on X, the shows what appears to be a number of consumer RTX cards dismantled en masse AI server conversion Tom's Hardware). 【太精彩了吧 X 上流出多段顯示卡改裝工場內部影片，可以看到大量 GeForce RTX 頂級遊戲顯示卡並未流向一般消費級零售市場，而是被整批運往大型改裝工廠。廠內工人在具備完整流水線的作業環境下，進行大規模拆解與改裝，將原本針對電競設計的三風扇散熱架構全數替換為 Slot 渦輪散熱器，以符合 AI 伺服器機箱的高密度排列需求。 GeForce RTX 零售彩盒包裝與全新裸卡，甚至連 NVIDIA 自家 GeForce RTX 也有。工人正以熟練的工序，迅速卸除原廠龐大的風扇與散熱鰭片模組，將完整的 PCB 電路板分離出來。隨後，GPU VRAM 會被「吹」出來移植至另一片 PCB 上，再統一換裝上厚度僅有 的厚銅底座渦輪鼓風散熱系統。 改裝完畢後，廠方隨即將顯示卡送往專門的測試檢驗產線。在多組相連的開放式測試平台上，數十張已換裝渦輪散熱器的顯示卡正同步運行圖形效能負載與穩定性跑分測試，確保每張改裝後的繪圖卡皆能正常運作。通過嚴格檢測的顯示卡將被分層整齊陳列並重新裝箱，準備直接交付給相關客戶，流程非常專業。 傳統消費級高階顯示卡通常採用三風扇大型散熱設計，厚度普遍佔用 至 4 個插槽，且出風方向為機箱內部側吹，難以在 伺服器或多卡並聯環境中並排安裝。換裝雙槽渦輪散熱系統後，散熱器能利用鼓風風扇將廢熱直接排出機箱後方，大幅提升多卡伺服器內部的散熱效率與空間相容性。 面對 AI 運算需求持續殷切，在算力緊缺的情況下，GeForce RTX AI 算力市場的熱門替代品。目前，GeForce RTX 售價已經被炒上接近一萬美元水平，這個價位遊戲玩家根本無力負擔。October 23, Workers are shown the GPUs, removing their coolers and heatsinks, and the PCBs conversion to dual-slot cooler suitable AI server racks. The scale of the looks truly vast, what looks to be hundreds, possibly thousands, of getting the chop shop Latest Videos FromPC Watch full video here: to HKEPC, the GPU and VRAM are desoldered and to a separate PCB ready cooler transplant. converted into an AI form factor, the are then on vast arrays of benchmarking ready to begin their new lives as AI rather than consumer graphics The horror, the horror, etc. These market" facilities are said to be throughout the country, despite the RTX not available sale in China. this facility looks to be stuffed full of the prized GPUs, skilled technicians them apart repurposing. credit: Future) Reports of this of activity are nothing new, this showing the scale of a single still unsettling. facilities like this are hoovering up and them at this of rate, it's perhaps surprise that RTX consumer cards have become so to find elsewhere. We've tracking the GPU in recent months on GPU price watch page, as the only US we can find are third-party vastly inflated prices. A GPU $8,000+ simply makes at all, even it to be top-level card this generation. the best curated deals in inbox every week The Circuit Breaker newsletter down the latest tech, and finds the best deals on the best products And to see them converted for, horror, AI crunching instead of good purposes? Well, chalk up way AI server demand making a to forget consumer hardware. Best graphics card 1. Best AMD Radeon RX 2. Best value: AMD Radeon RX 9060 16 GB 3. Best Nvidia RTX 5050 4. Best mid-range: AMD Radeon RX Best high-end: Nvidia GeForce RTX 👉Check out full graphics card TOPICS Andy Edser Writer Andy built his at the tender age of 12, IDE cables were a and high resolution wasn't. years later (yes getting old), he now his days writing about and graphics cards, CPUs, keyboards, headsets and much, much name it, it's he'll words about it, opinions and everything. confirm public display name commenting Please logout and then again, will then be prompted to display name.
Readers following the wider topic will recognise several familiar threads here, and further updates are expected as more becomes known. Nothing above should be read as speculation beyond what the reporting itself supports.