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One month ago now, I tried to buy one of the most ridiculous graphics cards I've ever seen on AliExpress.
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A 20 gig version of an RTX 3080.
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Now if you don't know why
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that gets me as giddy as a 30 -somethings lady reading a court of thorns and roses,
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the standard version of the 3080 only has 10 gigs of video memory.
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Which means some mad genius of an AliExpress seller figured out how to double it.
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I'm guessing by strapping it to a table and injecting peptides into its nipples until it reversed its memory pattern boldness.
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I think that's how that works, or they lied about it.
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But despite my feverish attempts to buy one,
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I was having a real tough time navigating the hellscape that is buying a GPU on AliExpress in 2026.
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I made a whole video about it, link down below for the full story.
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But for today's video, something very exciting happened.
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It actually came.
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Apparently not buying from the prosthetic limb guy was the way to go
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and i'm just
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so excited to see this graphics card all
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it took me was paying like 300 more than i wanted to for it oh
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now the beast is contained in a whole bunch of bubble wrap
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which is like top three types of wrap in my opinion
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i'm just gonna oh yeah a bunch of gross plastic to go in the ocean very exciting
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oh there's a strong like industrial smell coming off it that's actually a good sign
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that means it's real primo aliexpress merchandise the more noxious the chemical smell is the better
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it's also in an unmarked box
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which has some soft foam on the top
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this is like small batch graphics card we don't even have any kind of like brand material on it
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which is fascinating to see
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and uh there it is oh it's got some real heft to it whoa
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it's already looking cool here is our graphics card in a heavily reused anti -static bag
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which is fine whoa straight off the bat this is a fascinating pcb
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because it's got multiple kind of like soldering points for the power connectors
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and they decided to go with the dual 8 pin on
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the front of the card again all of this makes sense the fact
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that we get like a blower cooler with it and stuff
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because well this card isn't really designed for gaming this is more oriented people who want to run some llm action
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on their local machines what's weirder though is the envy link connector i'm pretty sure just the 3090 supported
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that but they did kind of like plastic it out a bit
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so maybe this is a one size fits all pcb i guess we'll find out
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when we take the cooler off this is actually plastic really it is a metal shroud
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that wraps around a bit of plastic cover
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but from the weight of the graphics card there's oh clearly some big heatsink going on
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and when you turn the graphics card around you get a peek at it
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that is actually what looks like a solid copper fin stack
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which is real rare in graphics cards
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and it might be part of why this thing is
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so heavy we've also got some pretty standard io for an rtx 3080 on the back
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and then it also tells us
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that this is a 20 gig rtx 3080 i am
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so excited now there were some weird discrepancies in the listing of this graphics card the listing was saying
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that it's an rtx 3080 3080 ti 3080m
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and then there's a dedicated bit in the description saying
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that the 3080m has high compatibility with laptops although this is apparently an ai generator description
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so does that mean the whole listing was just conjured up in an aliexpress llm poppers fever dream
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because the performance difference between the mobile variant of the 3080
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and the desktop variant is pretty huge
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so I'm really hoping we've got a desktop one in here
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but at the same time a mobile GPU in here would also be fascinating I feel like
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that would almost be the more interesting option
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so I'm kind of conflicted about which one I want so with
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that we've had a quick first look at this Cronenberg AliExpress RTX 3080 maybe an M 20 gig graphics card
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which is a real exciting sentence for me to say uh
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so we're gonna jump into the future now
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and do a quick teardown of this card whereas me i'm gonna go test it oh
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i genuinely can't wait to have a look under the hood of this thing
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Whoa, even random AliExpress no -name brand seller hides a screw under a sticker.
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That's...
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crazy oh it does come off never mind oh no
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i tore some uh some thermal pads these are actually very cheap thermal pads holy crap wow
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this is a bunch of video memory on the back here
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so does that mean
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that instead of replacing the memory on one side with double the the capacity kind of modules
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they designed a PCB where you can add more on the back
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I mean I guess there's just one way to find out
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and after some time struggling to pry the cooler off I realized I missed something oh I missed a screw
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that was under the back plate there we go oh my god oh wow yeah
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that is what they did i am at half vast looking at
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that pcb what is going on there uh
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but first we're gonna have a look at our cooler
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which has a big ass vapor chamber all along the bottom of the copper heatsink you don't see
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that every day but as you can tell everything makes nice contact with the pcb
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and there's a lot to make contact with
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that might be the craziest power delivery i've ever seen on a gpu
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there are one two three four five six seven eight nine ten eleven twelve thirteen fourteen fifteen sixteen seventeen eighteen
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there are 18 phases on this thing
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which is madness i don't know how those phases are shared between the gpu
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and the memory uh
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but it's also some of it used to uh to feed the memory on the back
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i was gonna say i wonder if this is the same pcb
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that they use for like a 3090 or a 3090 ti
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because we have that envy link support on the back here
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but there's only two eight pin slots although i guess you can technically have the two in the front connected
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and the two on the side connected at the same time
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i don't know i don't design pcbs uh either way
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that is there's just crazy stuff going on under here now
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when it comes the components on the pcb i couldn't get information
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that made sense to me for most of them
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but i'm still going to show them to you so that
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if it means something to you maybe
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you could share with the class in the comment section down below either way
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this was not what i was expecting to see under
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that cooler what a crazy pcb with all 20 of its one gig memory modules with
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that let's see if this wild creation even works.
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It is the moment of truth.
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I am very excited to see if this graphics card actually runs.
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I have a splosion cam set up so we have a front row seat to things going wrong if they do.
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But let's press the power button and see what happens.
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okay the screen capture is showing stuff happening hey
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there we go yay we've got a signal straight off the bat the most mind -blowing thing about this was
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that the nvidia drivers were just completely unfazed by the card
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they installed with no problem msi afterburner also immediately identified the
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card the system was acting up a little bit though
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so i decided to drop it in a different system
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which ran perfectly fine with the card in it here is the gpu z page
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which just reads it as an rtx 3080 ga 102
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so this seems to be a full -fledged desktop die
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that we have in here resize bar disabled okay i need to go re -enable
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that it's turned that off
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and then in here memory size 20 gigs with a bandwidth of 760 gigabits per second
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which yeah that's pretty good so i turned resize bar on in the bios
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and got to testing now we're starting off with cyberpunk running at 1440p high settings i'm using high settings
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so that it can scale into 4k and hopefully handle the game
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and the first thing that you'll notice is the power draw at 320 watts
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and then the temperatures oh no the temperatures we're we're already at 82 degrees celsius
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and the graphics card is getting progressively more shouty at me from the from the side over here
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it is impressive how the 3080 crushes this game at 1440p
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but it makes complete sense the 3080 is still a powerful gpu
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and it was a high -end graphics card when this game came out
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so like it it makes sense that it runs it very well wow that noise
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interestingly despite losing half our framerate jumping to 4k our memory utilization barely jumped up
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and it wasn't anywhere near crossing that 10 gig threshold
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so I jumped the settings up to ultra with ray tracing on which finally got us over 10 gigs
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Oh, there we go.
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That is well over 10 gigs that we're using now.
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Does that mean that with the normal card, instead of 20 frames per second, we're going to get one frame per second?
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What is amazing about this is how unfazed the drivers are by what's going on here.
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I was expecting there to be really big driver issues with this card
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and that we were going to have to use like a virus driver
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that they sent to us in a Google Docs drive or whatever.
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so we're going to do ultra 1440p without any upscaling in doom the dark ages
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and i think what's going to be a very useful setting slider is this bad boy
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because this might let us be able to oh yeah
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there we go wow at 1440p we're already right up against
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that 10 gig limitation with a playable frame rate
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so doom the dark ages might actually be a game where we can get a considerable performance difference between this
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and the stock card.
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And at 4k that utilization jumps up to a hemorrhoid shattering almost 13 gigs.
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Now at 35 -ish frames per second I wouldn't want to play the game this way
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but the graphics card's holding up pretty well here.
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Now at 1440p we're just skirting up against 10 gigs here in The Last of Us with ultra settings
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which means at 4k we should definitely be able to utilize the more legroom we've got going here.
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Now, unfortunately, The Last of Us doesn't let us set a resolution higher than the one on our display, but with the render scale option,
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it actually gives us what the rendered resolution is.
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So I'm going to use 4096 by 2304, which is a lot.
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It's a little bit above 4K.
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And here again, we're tantalizingly close to 13 gigs of memory utilization
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so let's drop a standard 10 gig rtx 3080 into the system to see
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if these resolutions grind it down into a fine paste now this is very weird
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but i immediately ran into problems with my evga xc3 card
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i couldn't get it to draw more than 250 watts while gaming
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which is way less than what this card is normally supposed to draw i tried overclocking the graphics card
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which is just ignored then i ddu wiped the drivers
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i installed new firmware on the graphics card updated the bios on the motherboard
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and even tested the graphics card in a different system
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but i just couldn't get
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it to behave differently what a backwards world where the macgybird aliexpress abomination has no problems
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but my evga card is throwing a massive tantrum
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now this reduction in power draw led to a nine percent
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drop in frame rate at cyberpunk 1440p high settings compared to the aliexpress card
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but unfortunately i don't have another 3080
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so we're just gonna have to use this sick card for the comparison
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now with cyberpunk cranked to the wall at 4k
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we dropped from 20 frames per second on the 20 gig aliexpress card to about 12.
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so yeah the 10 gig cards running like an asthmatic ebola sufferer here
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but it didn't quite fall off a cliff in the way
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that i was expecting but luckily doom the dark ages happily scratches
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that itch where we drop from the high 30s into about five frames per second oh yeah
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that's what a memory bottleneck looks like
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but weirdly the same thing didn't happen with the last of us
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now even with our diseased rtx 3080 the last of us is running very well
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it's not running super well compared to the not diseased card
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which i still can't believe is the aliexpress one
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but we are getting very close to our memory limit here
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so i think this is going to be another game where we're just gonna throat punch
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this graphics card right in the balls
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it didn't at 4k the performance drop was the exact same ratio as at 1440p
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so of course for gaming
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it makes zero sense paying almost a thousand dollars for this modded rtx 3080 from aliexpress
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and i don't know much about self -hosting llms
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but surely even there you're better off buying like a 32 gig v100 card for 400 canadian dollars less
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which brings me to the end of our time with this fascinating aliexpress graphics card
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if you enjoyed this video share it with your friends subscribe to the channel
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and until the next one thank you for watching bye
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Vocabolario e note di pronuncia per questa lezione
Questa lezione di conversazione si basa sul video “I Bought A Modded RTX 3080 From Aliexpress..”. Le parole che ritornano più spesso: card, graphics, gig, Aliexpress, memory. Questo video contiene 18 frasi e 2320 parole da ripetere con lo shadowing. Il parlato dura 14:35. Chi parla ha un ritmo naturale di circa 159 parole al minuto, vicino a una conversazione quotidiana. Solo il 79% delle parole rientra nelle 3.000 più comuni dell’inglese, quindi il lessico è impegnativo. 4 delle sue 18 frasi sono domande: un buon esercizio per l’intonazione interrogativa e le risposte brevi.
Vocaboli chiave di questo video
15 parole del video che vale la pena imparare, con pronuncia e significato:
| Parola | Pronuncia | Significato |
|---|---|---|
| graphics sostantivo | /ˈɡɹæfɪks/ | grafica |
| gig sostantivo | /ɡɪɡ/ | esibizione |
| desktop sostantivo | /ˈdɛsktɒp/ | computer fisso, calcolatore fisso |
| connect verbo | /kəˈnɛkt/ | connettere, connettersi |
| copper sostantivo | /ˈkɒpə/ | rame |
| sink verbo | /ˈsɪŋk/ | affondare, sprofondare |
| wrap verbo | /ɹæp/ | avvolgere, avviluppare |
| thermal aggettivo | /ˈθɜːməl/ | termico |
| render verbo | /ˈɹɛn.dɚ/ | rendere |
| variant sostantivo | /ˈvæɹi.ənt/ | variante |
| cellar sostantivo | /ˈsɛləɹ/ | cantina, scantinato |
| ignore verbo | /ɪɡˈnɔː/ | ignorare |
| chamber sostantivo | /ˈt͡ʃeɪ̯mbɚ/ | camera |
| impressive aggettivo | /ɪmˈpɹɛsɪv/ | impressionante, spettacolare |
| ridiculous aggettivo | /ɹɪˈdɪk.jə.ləs/ | ridicolo |
I phrasal verb che sentirai
| Parola | Pronuncia | Significato |
|---|---|---|
| find out verbo | scoprire | |
| figure out verbo | scoprire, rendersi conto | |
| hold up verbo | ritardare, rallentare | |
| set up verbo | /ˌsɛt ˈʌp/ | preparare, installare |
Frasi da ripetere
Frasi brevi e complete del video che puoi riutilizzare nella conversazione di tutti i giorni:
- I think that's how that works.
- Whereas me, I'm going to go test it.
- You don't see that every day.
- Yay, we've got a signal.
La grammatica di questo video
Le strutture che chi parla usa di più, con le parole esatte del video:
| Struttura | Nel video |
|---|---|
| Forma passiva be + participio passato — conta ciò che accade, non chi lo fa | is contained · isn't really designed · was just conjured |
| Present perfect have/has + participio passato — un’azione passata che conta ancora adesso | I've ever seen · we've had |
Pronuncia a cui fare attenzione
Chi parla usa 53 contrazioni e forme ridotte, come we're, I'm, don't. Pronunciale nella forma breve, così come le senti.
- I suoni “th”: thermal /ˈθɜːməl/, throat /ˈθɹoʊt/, threshold /ˈθɹɛʃ(h)oʊld/, bandwidth /ˈbændwɪdθ/, motherboard /ˈmʌðɚˌbɔɹd/
- I suoni “sh” e “zh”: capture /ˈkæp.(t)ʃɚ/, reduction /ɹɪˈdʌk.ʃən/, ratio /ˈɹeɪ.ʃoʊ/, explosion /ɛkˈsploʊ.ʒən/, crush /kɹʌʃ/
- Parole lunghe — attenzione all’accento: ridiculous /ɹɪˈdɪk.jə.ləs/, considerable /kənˈsɪdəɹəbl̩/, differently /ˈdɪf.ə.ɹənt.li/, genuinely /ˈd͡ʒɛn.ju.ɪn.li/, technically /ˈtɛk.nɪˌkəl.i/
I suoni difficili per chi parla italiano:
- /h/ — va soffiata, non è muta: happily /ˈhæp.ə.li/, threshold /ˈθɹɛʃ(h)oʊld/, behave /bɪˈheɪv/, heave /ˈhiːv/, hemorrhoid /ˈhɛməɹɔɪd/
- Consonante finale — senza aggiungere una vocale dopo: graphics /ˈɡɹæfɪks/, gig /ɡɪɡ/, desktop /ˈdɛsktɒp/, installed /ɪnˈstɔːld/, connect /kəˈnɛkt/
- /æ/ — più aperta della “e”: graphics /ˈɡɹæfɪks/, wrap /ɹæp/, pad /pæd/, variant /ˈvæɹi.ənt/, capture /ˈkæp.(t)ʃɚ/
Come esercitarsi con questo video
- Ascolta tutto il video una volta senza parlare e annota le parole che non conosci.
- Inizia a velocità 0,75×, fai shadowing frase per frase e torna alla velocità normale quando diventa facile.
- Registrati e confronta con l’originale, facendo attenzione a parole come graphics, gig, desktop.
Cos'è la tecnica dello Shadowing?
Shadowing è una tecnica di apprendimento delle lingue supportata da studi scientifici, originariamente sviluppata per la formazione dei traduttori professionisti e resa popolare dal poliglotta Dr. Alexander Arguelles. Il metodo è semplice ma potente: ascolti un audio in inglese di madrelingua e lo ripeti immediatamente ad alta voce — come un'ombra che segue il parlante con un ritardo di solo 1–2 secondi. A differenza dell'ascolto passivo o degli esercizi di grammatica, lo shadowing costringe il tuo cervello e i muscoli della bocca a elaborare e riprodurre simultaneamente i modelli di discorso reale. La ricerca dimostra che migliora significativamente la precisione della pronuncia, l'intonazione, il ritmo, il discorso connesso, la comprensione dell'ascolto e la fluidità del parlato — rendendolo uno dei metodi più efficaci per la preparazione alla prova di speaking dell'IELTS e per la comunicazione reale in inglese.