Nvidia is giving away classic GPUs, framed and signed by the CEO

It might be embarrassing to be an unpaid cheerleader for an electronics company, but as a computer geek, even I can’t deny the appeal Classic electronic products are framed and presented like works of art. Add a dash of autograph scarcity and it becomes irresistible.

That’s the idea behind Nvidia’s latest promotion, in which CEO Jensen Huang will sign a framed version of the company’s classic graphics card. A tweet from before CES said: From the official GeForce Promotions account, presenting the first giveaway.

Launched in 1999, the GeForce 256 – “the world’s first GPU” – was backed by Huang’s John Hancock. Its artistic and intrinsic value is certainly debatable, as is its claim to be the first, but having a piece of computer gaming history signed by one of the richest men on the planet has to count as a ton of bragging rights, back in the day. .

Nvidia is giving away this card and four other signature framed cards as part of this promotion, but we don’t know what model the next card will be. I bet dollars and donuts 8800 GTX in 2006 Will appear as one of them. it may not be that powerful The upcoming GeForce RTX 50 seriesbut even two decades later, it still looms large in the memories of computer gamers.

If you want to compete, you can enter by replying “#GeForceGreats” to the original tweet.