When EVGA announced its withdrawal from the GPU graphics card market, I believe it was a pity for many players. Originally, some people speculated that it would just stop cooperating with NVIDIA, and AMD would still have one. However, EVGA later responded that it would no longer sell GPU graphics cards, which meant that it had really withdrawn. Although you won’t see EVGA’s RTX 40 series graphics cards, an opportunity to buy one recently appeared on eBay overseas. EVGA quietly put the RTX 4090 FTW3 graphics card prototype on the shelves for charity auction.
EVGA GeForce RTX 4090 graphics card prototype appears on eBay auction, proceeds will be used for charity
EVGA has been working hard in the graphics card market for a long time and has accumulated many fans. Therefore, when it announced its withdrawal, many players were very sorry. However, this time was very close to the release date of RTX 4090 and RTX 4080, so EVGA has indeed produced engineering samples of RTX 4090. Since it is no longer useful,Recently I auctioned on eBay for a charity event。
According to foreign media reports, EVGA plans to donate the proceeds from the auction of this RTX 4090 FTW3 graphics card prototype to St. Jude Children’s Hospital to help fight diseases and find treatments.
However, this eBay auction is scheduled to end in a few days. I am not sure why. Now I can no longer find the product after entering the auction page. Here is the description on the previous auction page:
- Limited edition EVGA next generation graphics card.
- 100% of proceeds from EVGA will be donated directly to St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. USA only.
- This is a working graphics card, pre-produced and sold as-is.
- No warranty/returns.
Therefore, the representative said that after users buy this RTX 4090 FTW3 graphics card prototype, they can directly connect it to the computer for use. Since it is advertised to be usable and the same as the commercial version, the performance should be the same as RTX 4090 graphics cards of various brands. However, the location is limited to the United States, which has caused many overseas players to complain.
In any case, it is likely that we will not see EVGA’s new graphics card again in the future, so many fans are bidding. VideoCardz recorded that the bidding price at the time reached US$13,100, about NT$400,000. Yes, this is only one graphics card, and it seems that it will get higher.
Some netizens felt that such a high price was exaggerated, thinking “This price is too high!” and “Is it really worth the price?” However, most of them regretted that they did not have so much money. Some netizens believed that this was a rare period in the history of PC. If you have money, you must bid for it.
In fact, it’s not just 13,100 US dollars, someone has already bid up to 14,400 US dollars, which is about NT$440,000:
It is speculated that EVGA did not expect the auction price to be so exaggerated, so it quickly called a halt. It is not clear how much the final transaction was.
In addition, I also noticed that a reporter from the foreign media Techspot mentioned that if this graphics card can be shipped to Australia and contribute to charity, he is willing to pay US$13,300 for this graphics card. It can only be said that the financial resources of the PC hardware community are also very strong…
Source: KOCPC Chinese