US EditionNVIDIA Marketplace Briefly Lists "Acme GeForce RTX 4040 8 GB BRICK Edition"
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News extracted from HD Technology. Visit www.hd-tecnologia.com for the latest news. In a fact as unusual as it is fun, the official commercial website of NVIDIA in the United States surprised users by listing a supposed graphics card called GeForce RTX 4040 Brick Edition. Yes, you read well, "Brick Edition", or brick edition, a classic reference among the hardware community... but this time it took literal form. The curious thing is that this RT…
NVIDIA Marketplace Briefly Lists "Acme GeForce RTX 4040 8 GB BRICK Edition"
Perusers of the NVIDIA US Marketplace noticed a listing of an "Acme GeForce RTX 4040 8 GB BRICK Edition" product. Prior to a fresh removal, this mystery item was not in stock—reflecting the short supply of many GeForce RTX 50-series offerings. An advertised £$0.00" price indicates internal placeholder or jokey origins. After all, graphics card-related scams have involved the swiping of genuine articles—craftily replaced with similarly weighted s…
For a short period of time, Nvidia had one thing in common with the classic hardware store: the online shop of the GPU manufacturer listed a brick.
Someone at Nvidia probably allowed himself a little joke, because in the official online shop of the US company a brick with 8 GiByte graphics memory was listed as "Geforce RTX 4040 Brick Edition 8GB".
Yes, yes, you don't dream, it's a reality, there's a brick for sale on NVIDIA's USA marketplace. The brick bears the name of GeForce RTX 4040 Brick Edition. A card, which is not a card, but still has the right to 8GB of video memory. Clearly, no one knows where this card comes from, whether it's a NVIDIA joke or something else. [...] Read more
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