It’s been three months since prolific graphics card maker EVGA introduced that it was ending its partnership with Nvidia and leaving the GPU market fully. The information despatched a shockwave by way of the PC trade, solidifying long-standing stories of discontent amongst Nvidia’s manufacturing companions and contextualizing a few of its excessive costs. As the final EVGA graphics playing cards depart retailer cabinets, the corporate is letting followers get a glance into its interior workings.

EVGA invited GamersNexus (which broke the unique story) to famed overclocker Kingpin’s engineering lab in Taiwan, giving avid gamers a seldom-seen look into how the sausage will get made. (In this metaphor, the sausage is a four-figure graphics card.) Along the way in which the corporate provides us a fast class in its company historical past, design philosophy, and among the instruments it makes use of to take Nvidia’s designs and push them to the restrict with customized cooling and overclocking.

It’s a protracted tour, however followers of PC constructing extra shall be notably fascinated about one story: EVGA is the place four-way SLI obtained began. You keep in mind SLI, that Nvidia tech that allow you to use a number of graphics playing cards in a single PC, earlier than every one wanted half of your energy provide wattage and your whole lease to purchase? Anyway, EVGA found out how you can get 4 super-powered playing cards speaking to at least one one other on one motherboard greater than ten years in the past, by way of an attention-grabbing BIOS hack. You can hear about it at about 8:30 within the video.

Elsewhere, the final remnants of EVGA’s graphics card enterprise are beginning to be revealed. GamersNexus obtained their fingers on a prototype EVGA RTX 4090 that may by no means see a retail retailer shelf. But if you happen to occur to have a comfortable spot for the corporate, and about ten thousand freakin’ {dollars} to spare, one member of the EVGA person discussion board is selling an EVGA-customized 4090, although it isn’t being referred to as a 4090 after EVGA’s high-profile break up with Nvidia.

The itemizing was spotted by PCGamer. All proceeds from the sale shall be donated to St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. At the time of writing, the best unverified bid was $9,600. Good luck.