Is there more info about this? I could only find Chinese forums like https://m-weibo-cn.translate.goog/status/OdaBMza1L?from=page_1005052963774131_profile&wvr=6&mod=weibotime&jumpfrom=weibocom
The chips (basic TTL logic, perhaps) are all DIP. This may predate the term “open source”.
You switched two wires.
Mine almost looks that good
This is a reasonable typical perfboard build by comparison. The above is insanity.
nice
This looks more like the boards they used in the 60s and 70s in prototyping. I have done such a board myself in my youth. All 40xx and 74LSxx DIL chips and a plain dot board. And a sh-tload of patching wire where I had to remove the isolation paint before I could solder that stuff.
I don’t think you could build a working GPU with that wirewrap technology, the frequncies needed are simply to high.
Why does this look like when i first iterate a pcb and need to bodge the hell out of it to make it work.
Can it play Crysis?
It certainly can cause crisis
Only gamers will get that joke
-Jensen Huang, Computex, May 29, 2023
Not sure but it sure can run doom since that runs on rocks even
Judging by the craiglist watermark on the bottom right, it’s probably just a meme listing.
I have stolen it from Chinese website
Still more reliable than Wayland on nvidia.
What am I looking at?
A free and open source GPU compiled by hands
The free and open source comes with the fact it was hand made ? I don’t get it
I don’t get it either
Would assume that in this case that the gpu was created and assempled using a open blueprint/schematic thats freely available for anyone to see use and modify. Fairly common thing when it comes to stuff like 3d printing where many people freely share their models for others to use.
The joke is in the eye of the beholder, for me it’s funny because you have the buzzwords “free and open source” which means you can implement it however you want and the user here decided “fuck it, I will do it by hand”.
some pci-e device. but the main chips are probably on the other side of the board.
I don’t know, maybe it’s not even a GPU
Looks like an ISA card to me - might be RAM, but I’m not confident at all
Serious response I agree with Pogo, it looks like a handmade RAM.
Did you see the pic of the front?
Posted by someone above. https://mander.xyz/pictrs/image/af6db07a-cc89-41f8-840c-3b7d44fb5fb0.jpeg
It looks like a wire wrapped prototype board of some kind, impossible to tell the purpose from that photo alone though.
Dedication to wire this up manually is amazing.
Messy cabling. Pull them out.
✂️
If it’s open, looks don’t matter. Also doesn’t matter if the drivers are trash, or if it runs zero games. It’s all fixable trash - that’s the point.
(Also, that’s not a GPU, but it’s the thought that counts)
Typical spaghetti code
-O2 from the looks of it
What’s its name
GTX Firebomb
aka FTX (F for Fire and to pay respects)
Jeremy
Haywire. You don’t see that often anymore.
I wonder why
