Vietnam’s ‘King of VGA’ is promoting mountains of graphics playing cards on the road

PC players have spent years dwelling in uncertainty relating to {hardware} availability. The silicon scarcity, pandemic, manufacturing points, environmental disasters, and crypto mining all ravaged the market. For some time there it was slim pickings for anybody seeking to improve, particularly when you had been on the hunt for a brand new graphics card. We even had a information (opens in new tab) up, providing ideas to assist individuals purchase a brand new GPU through the scarcity. Now, the self-proclaimed King of VGA, Vietnam’s Lê Thành, is hawking them on the road.

After just a few years that felt like a long time, the GPU scarcity of the previous is mainly behind us. GPUs are far simpler to choose up from retail shops now, and model new {hardware} is already right here. The following technology of Nvidia playing cards are already out within the wild (opens in new tab), although costly and nonetheless a bit of difficult to get. That mentioned, the Nvidia RTX 4090 Founders version (opens in new tab) is a brand new pressure to be reckoned with, and we have seen pictures of the brand new AMD RDNA 3 playing cards wanting tremendous promising (opens in new tab) besides.

With crypto mining beginning to lose its shine (opens in new tab) and new playing cards on the scene, it is no shock that second hand playing cards are cropping up everywhere in the market (opens in new tab). These worn-out playing cards are unlikely to be well worth the cash, particularly with the ability washing therapy some get earlier than sale (opens in new tab). Nonetheless, there’s one thing particular about seeing them bought by the kilo on the facet of the highway.

Lê Thành posted pictures to his Fb account (opens in new tab) (through Tom’s {Hardware} (opens in new tab)) that includes a setup like a road dealer promoting fruit and veggies, however as an alternative of apples it is mountains of GPUs. The machines are stacked on high of one another, some in packing containers, some out. Subsequent to Thành, sits an previous model mint inexperienced set of grocery scales.

There’s even a enjoyable parody video (opens in new tab) the place Thành begins by waving a internet over his produce, like a vendor preserving away flies. A scooter drives previous to choose up a weighted order of playing cards, which after some bartering is unceremoniously positioned right into a purple plastic grocery bag. It is sufficient to make these of us operating older GPUs cry a bit of. Or perhaps quite a bit. 

As soon as once more, we completely do not advocate you decide up used mining GPUs. They’re nearly actually not going to be well worth the cash. Possibly in the event that they’re actually low-cost they’d be good for some gaming, or DIY use, or perhaps even artwork items. Even when these side-of-the-road playing cards are in all probability all burnt-through, I would nonetheless form of like to purchase one bag filled with GPU, please.

Thành’s Fb web page (opens in new tab) is crammed with different photos of simply unfathomable quantities of graphics playing cards simply kinda hanging round. Title model playing cards mainly wall to wall to the purpose the place it nearly begins to appear like a badly repeated texture graphic in some place. With all of the modifications to crypto and the present market, hopefully a dragon’s hoard of GPUs shouldn’t be one thing we’ll should see once more for a protracted, very long time.