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PC Gamer
Andy Edser

Upgrading an RTX 4090 to 48 GB of VRAM is (slightly) easier than I thought, thanks to a custom PCB, some second-hand GDDR6X, and a leaked Nvidia BIOS

Two things before we start—one, the video above uses an AI voiceover and it's rubbish, so be prepared for the RTX 4090 to be referred to as the RTX four-thousand-and-ninety a whole lot. And two, you're about to see how that card can be outfitted with an astonishing 48 GB of VRAM and come out of the experience working correctly, a process I only thought possible with dark arts, witchcraft, and a sacrifice made to the silicon gods.

But whaddaya know, it turns out it's actually reasonably achievable, as demonstrated by our host, Vik-on (via Videocardz). While plenty of modders have strapped more memory modules to graphics cards in the past, it's usually been a technical exercise, rather than creating a genuinely useable GPU at the end of it.

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