It could be cringeworthy to be an unpaid cheerleader for an electronics firm, however as a PC nerd, even I can’t deny the enchantment of traditional electronics framed and introduced like items of artwork. Throw in a little bit of autographed shortage and it turns into irresistible.
That’s the concept behind Nvidia’s latest promotion, whereby CEO Jensen Huang will signal framed variations of the corporate’s traditional graphics playing cards. So sayeth a pre-CES tweet from the official GeForce promotional account, exhibiting off the primary giveaway.
The framed GeForce 256 from 1999 — “the world’s first GPU” — bears Huang’s John Hancock on the backing. Its creative and intrinsic worth is unquestionably debatable, as is that declare of being the primary, however proudly owning a bit of PC gaming historical past signed by one of many richest individuals on the planet has to rely for an entire lot of bragging rights, on the very least.
Nvidia will give away this and 4 different signed-and-framed playing cards as a part of this promotion, although we don’t know which fashions these following playing cards might be. I’d guess {dollars} to donuts that the 8800 GTX from 2006 will make an look as one in all them. It won’t be as highly effective because the upcoming GeForce RTX 50 sequence, but it surely nonetheless looms giant within the reminiscence of PC players even twenty years later.
If you wish to throw your hat within the ring, you possibly can reply to the unique tweet with “#GeForceGreats” to enter.
