China modded GPU (eg. 4090 48gb) --> I'm gonna figure it out. IS THERE NO ONE ELSE CURIOUS??

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A Reddit user expresses curiosity about modded Chinese GPUs (e.g., 48GB RTX 4090) and seeks information on performance, reliability, and sourcing, proposing to form a research group.

There's a dearth of information (in the english world) about these cards. The good recent video is probably this one: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TcRGBeOENLg](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TcRGBeOENLg) even in this subreddit, there's seems to be few reviews of these cards. Last couple of decent threads: [https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/1s62b23/bought\_rtx4080\_32gb\_triple\_fan\_from\_china/](https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/1s62b23/bought_rtx4080_32gb_triple_fan_from_china/) [https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/1nifajh/i\_bought\_a\_modded\_4090\_48gb\_in\_shenzhen\_this\_is/](https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/1nifajh/i_bought_a_modded_4090_48gb_in_shenzhen_this_is/) Is there really NOONE else who has tried these? In particular 1. Software / bios / quirks that make them NOT run as per unmodded card 2. Short term consistency, does it run fast for a test, but hang / die when stressed? 3. Long term reliability - does the whole thing fail within 2 months of regular usage? 4. Are the benchmarks good? Where are the results?? 5. source and price? chinese video site blibli has ton of videos, and taobao (and other ecomm) sites also lots of sellers. If i can piece together enough research, i may also visit shenzhen to pick up a few. If you're interested in this space, DM me . hope to form a group to split up research efforts. Also any native chinese speakers who are familiar in this space also please join in. EDIT: Some downvotes going on. Unclear if its some larger suppression of this topic, or just angry people.
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