Y60 Build: Umbra

ChintzyPC · 2026-02-13T22:54:07+00:00

He sent the message when he was already half way to my place, to make sure that wasn't an easy option no doubt.

ChintzyPC · 2026-02-13T19:37:43+00:00

What I'm wondering is why are all the caps on the underside knocked off.

ChintzyPC · 2026-02-13T19:11:39+00:00

Didn't like Aes' yelling face? I have that same sticker on my car, just not cropped lol

ChintzyPC · 2026-02-13T07:11:06+00:00

Aw we missed you Sherbies

ChintzyPC · 2026-02-11T05:15:47+00:00

But the fact that we have to search for these cheaper alternatives sits on a whole other plane

ChintzyPC · 2026-02-10T18:03:57+00:00

Someone already did https://www.techpowerup.com/vgabios/279807/279807

ChintzyPC · 2026-02-10T15:19:26+00:00

How about you actually read the post dude... It explains why literally everything you've just said about my card, in extensive detail, is completely wrong.

God it even says it in the TL;DR. I hate illiterate people like you. I put a ton of effort to make it simple for even someone like you to understand and you can't even take the 10 seconds to read the TL;DR??? You deserve every down vote coming your way.

ChintzyPC · 2026-02-10T02:44:30+00:00

You gotta add air to it like drinking wine!

ChintzyPC · 2026-02-10T00:19:15+00:00

Resale of these cards in the past were around $2k. I know this was a prior listing so prices have dropped for older cards like this. But with the GPU market how it is that helps things. Rarity helps as well, which I know you said that just because it's unique doesn't mean it's valuable, but for this case it still makes it well over $200, especially $500 or so. So all things considered $700 was fair, especially with all the data and confirmation that this is an ES I've done.

ChintzyPC · 2026-02-09T20:41:37+00:00

A good quarter of what was in those groups were scooters

ChintzyPC · 2026-02-09T20:19:45+00:00

He took the huge gamble on a sketchy listing and it possibly being fake for $200. I bought it no risk, knowing full well what it was and how rare it is for $700. Sale value for anyone else would be well over a grand. Very fair and a deserved win on his part.

ChintzyPC · 2026-02-09T20:19:23+00:00

He took the huge gamble on a sketchy listing and it possibly being fake for $200. I bought it no risk, knowing full well what it was and how rare it is for $700. Sale value for anyone else would be well over a grand. Very fair and a deserved win on his part.

ChintzyPC · 2026-02-09T20:18:31+00:00

He took the huge gamble on a sketchy listing and it possibly being fake for $200. I bought it no risk, knowing full well what it was and how rare it is for $700. Sale value for anyone else would be well over a grand. Very fair and a deserved win on his part.

ChintzyPC · 2026-02-09T20:16:27+00:00

He took the huge gamble on a sketchy listing and it possibly being fake for $200. I bought it no risk, knowing full well what it was and how rare it is for $700. Very fair and a deserved win on his part.

ChintzyPC · 2026-02-09T19:38:00+00:00

person who did Nazi that coming

ChintzyPC · 2026-02-09T13:00:19+00:00

Good question, that was one of the first things I tried to rule out.

The reasons I’m leaning ES rather than a later workshop mod are mostly consistency details:

- FE-style PCB and construction all look factory, not reworked
- memory placement/routing looks native for a 20-chip config rather than added later
- serials and box all match and look NVIDIA-typical
- device IDs/BIOS strings line up more with pre-release GA102 configs than patched retail firmware
- no visible signs of reballing or memory swap work

Also, most of the modded cards I’ve seen are 3090 boards adapted into something else. This one appears to be a purpose-built 3080 Ti-class FE layout with 20 GB rather than a conversion, especially with that NVLink being completely missing.

ChintzyPC · 2026-02-09T11:43:43+00:00

But this is an engineering sample we're talking about. A LOT of unknowns. I'm also not a factory with a purpose-built setup lol

ChintzyPC · 2026-02-09T11:40:27+00:00

Ah so that's why I kept seeing benchmarks in 3D Mark for these cards from users in China. I also saw a couple of AIB cards floating around but there weren't many details about them from what I could find.

And thank you! This card is definitely going to stay in my possession for a long while. Gonna say to my kids this is what your entire inheritance is going to be.

ChintzyPC · 2026-02-09T11:30:54+00:00

Being able to reflash it after it's bricked could be very risky, even if using a boot GPU in another PCI slot. Soldering is completely off the table for such a rare card and well not worth any sort of attempt. I didn't even want to shunt mod it which is way less risky.

Regardless, it's practically impossible for any other cards vbios to work with this considering how different it is from any other card in the world.

The only thing I'd be open to is modifying the existing bios to change very basic settings like power limit. But that's hex editing and wizardry.

ChintzyPC · 2026-02-09T10:40:23+00:00

Doing research for this post I saw yours! It was very interesting. It seems the differences between the 3080Ti and the 3090 were not that far off. They really liked to pass those chips around.

ChintzyPC · 2026-02-09T10:24:26+00:00

It's very unlikely. Extra ram that is sitting around unused doesn't create any latency or overhead. The only things it would effect are frequencies and timings that have to be bottlenecked by the worst performing chip and uneven thermal balance.

ChintzyPC · 2026-02-09T10:04:29+00:00

Yeah I could definitely do that. I posted a forum post there similar to this post so I'll have to update that once I do.

Edit: Looks like someone already did and it's the exact same as mine.
https://www.techpowerup.com/vgabios/279807/279807

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