Creating a 48GB NVIDIA RTX 4090 GPU | Brother Zhang's Repair Shop (ft. 张哥)

Episode Title: "Creating a 48GB NVIDIA RTX 4090 GPU | Brother Zhang's Repair Shop (ft. 张哥)"
Content: Sponsor: Arctic Freezer 36 Air Cooler on Amazon https://geni.us/5VdU1 We hand-make a 48GB RTX 4090 NVIDIA GPU with Zhang Ge in China, finally releasing our full shop tour of his GPU repair facility. With never-before-seen footage of his shop in combination with our prior-shown footage of the 48GB mod, we show the industry in China keeping old video cards alive and circulating for users. Customers include everyone from gaming users trying to save money on a repair rather than a replacement to enterprise users. Gamers can get a far better deal asking Zhang to repair their video card, sometimes for around $140 US, rather than buying a totally new video card. In particular due to export controls, this can be useful to keeping hard-to-get silicon in circulation. Enterprise users sometimes want 10-20 48GB RTX 4090s at once for training or inference tasks. Zhang's team is incredibly talented at GPU repair and modding, and we appreciate the time they took to welcome us in. This video exists because we hit a stretch goal for one of our supporter campaigns. Our current campaign is the AI DYSTOPIA series if you'd like to support more content like this. Find Zhang Ge on BiliBili here: https://space.bilibili.com/611438407?from=search&seid=599475376733028635&spm_id_from=333.337.0.0 Find Brother Zhang on YouTube here: https://www.youtube.com/@fydn (修电脑的张哥) Find the AI DYSTOPIA series for more in-depth content like this: https://store.gamersnexus.net/ai-dystopia The best way to support our work is through our store: https://store.gamersnexus.net/ Like our content? Please consider becoming our Patron to support us: http://www.patreon.com/gamersnexus TIMESTAMPS 00:00 - Multiplying the VRAM 03:12 - Arriving at Zhang's Shop 08:21 - Soldering Repair Stations 11:15 - Finding Bad VRAM 12:47 - Repair Price in China 14:48 - Zhang's Story and Background 18:00 - Making a 48GB RTX 4090 21:24 - Custom PCB and Doubling Memory 30:06 - The Moment of Truth ** Please like, comment, and subscribe for more! ** Links to Amazon and Newegg are typically monetized on our channel (affiliate links) and may return a commission of sales to us from the retailer. This is unrelated to the product manufacturer. Any advertisements or sponsorships are disclosed within the video ("this video is brought to you by") and above the fold in the description. We do not ever produce paid content or "sponsored content" (meaning that the content is our idea and is not funded externally aside from whatever ad placement is in the beginning) and we do not ever charge manufacturers for coverage. Follow us in these locations for more gaming and hardware updates: t: http://www.twitter.com/gamersnexus f: http://www.facebook.com/gamersnexus w: http://www.gamersnexus.net/ Our policies, processes, and ethics statements relating to review samples, advertising, travel, errors, and more are transparently and publicly available on this page: https://gamers.nexus/ethics-statements Steve Burke: Host, Video Editing Vitalii Makhnovets: Video Editing Andrew Coleman: Video Editing Tannen Williams: Camera Operator Zhang Ge: Guest Raymen: Translator


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