This is apparently what the front looks like.
Socks outside vs inside
Wow even looks like a GPU.
What is it?
Mine almost looks that good
nice
This is a reasonable typical perfboard build by comparison. The above is insanity.
Still more reliable than Wayland on nvidia.
Haywire. You don’t see that often anymore.
I wonder why
also doubles as an electrical fire generator, very versatile
If you are worried about that, then don’t look behind the panel on any computers with a wire wrapped backplane.
The design is very human
I can see the schematics!
Fire starter 4000
Actually no. Wire wrapping prototypes were made like this. This also looks like an old ISA card as well, from which period this method of prototyping was still in us. It’s also the method in which the Apollo’s guidance computer was made and that one survived a lot harsher conditions than desktop PC, and survived.
Typical spaghetti code
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.
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)
Can it play Crysis?
It certainly can cause crisis
You switched two wires.
Surely figuring out home made pcbs is easier than that. Based on things I’ve made that don’t work very well on a breadboard but work better on a pcb, this guy is likely working hard not smart. (I’ve gotten 2 layer homemade pcbs to work before but stopped when pcb fab services became more affordable to hobbyiests)
What am I looking at?
A free and open source GPU compiled by hands
What’s its name
GTX Firebomb
Jeremy