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by sippeangelo9 hours ago |
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upvoteby nextaccountic8 hours ago|
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Any links to them? Never heard of this..
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upvoteby noboostforyou5 hours ago|
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I've seen a guy who sells modded 2080 Ti with 22gb for $500

https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/gpus/chinese-work...

There's also unreleased Nvidia engineering samples of cards with doubled VRAM like this - https://www.reddit.com/r/nvidia/comments/1rczghu/update_unre...

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upvoteby giobox7 hours ago|
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It’s been going on for a while. Search YouTube or the web for 48gb 4090 (this is one of the most popular modded Nvidia cards), Nvidia of course never officially made a 4090 with this much memory.

There are some on sale via eBay right now. The memory controllers on some Nvidia gpus support well beyond the 16-24gb they shipped with as standard, and enterprising folks in China desolder the original memory chips and fit higher capacity ones.

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upvoteby elorant7 hours ago|
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Go at ebay and search for RTX 4090 48GBs. There's plenty of them with prices around $3.5k
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upvoteby giwook8 hours ago|
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And how much do you trust Chinese hardware?
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upvoteby embedding-shape8 hours ago|
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Give that most of mine, and probably yours, and probably most of the world's computers are in fact made in China one way or another, some higher percentage than others, I'm guessing most of us trust our hardware enough to continue using it.
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upvoteby x______________8 hours ago|
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When there's no one left to trust, maybe you need to re-evaluate your criteria.
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upvoteby sgc6 hours ago|
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I wouldn't say that's true or even likely. It's completely possible to be in a pit of vipers where every single snake is venomous, and that is pretty much what we are seeing: With technological advances, there is a certain subset of people that will use them primarily to solidify their power and control over others. There is no utopian society right now whose government doesn't look to spy through technology, which of course is best set up at time of manufacture.
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upvoteby x______________5 hours ago|
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Agreed. Unless you have full control over the production chain to fully produce a device, you are subject to the whims and desires of those who preside over such technological feats that we take for granted in our daily lives.

To the original point, it's safe to say that highlighting a nationality with regards to trust is baseless and without merit, as would be for any other topic (men/women from x are y, z food is better here, etc..). Real life is much more complicated and nuanced past nationalities. Some might call it FUD (fear, uncertainty and doubt) but there's always a deeper rationale at the individual level as well.

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upvoteby sgc5 hours ago|
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Rather than people being wary of Chinese in general, it's more that there is a high degree of government control exercised in China and they are known to be very strategic with long-term planning in regards to technology control both for spying and actual remote control of devices. We are all just looking for the least bad option. It's not like devices from other countries are immune, but they are often less organized so there is a better chance of avoiding the Chinese level of planned access.

It does seem like pretty low risk in this specific case so I agree OP's comment was bit over the top, but I would have no way to make anything resembling even an educated guess as to how far their programs go.

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upvoteby whywhywhywhy4 hours ago|
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The Mac is also chinese hardware
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upvoteby platevoltage1 hours ago|
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It would be hilarious if you are using a Lenovo device right now.
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