I keep seeing these modified cards with far more memory than the retail version. For gaming they look pointless, but I wonder if anyone here has actually used one for local model work or heavy 3D scenes.

What are the real downsides in practice — driver support, warranty, thermals, resale? Curious whether it is a novelty or genuinely useful.

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only worth it if youre running big local models and vram is what stops you. fits = full speed, doesnt fit = spilling to ram and its unusable. thats the whole use case

anything else nah. games dont come close to that much, and its a hand modded card, no warranty, weird bios, good luck reselling. memory side cooling is what dies first from what ive seen

video maybe if youre doing 8k but youll hit cpu and disk way before vram
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