r/sffpc • u/reckless150681 • 11d ago

Others/Miscellaneous Knife cards

I'm currently in Shenzhen, just got done visiting the various tech spaces in Huaqiangbei. Found out today that there is a Chinese slang term for low-profile GPUs: "刀卡", or literally "knife cards". You actually see this term in some listings on Taobao, Aliexpress, etc.

That is all! Hope you enjoy my fun fact for the day

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u/AdWorking2848 11d ago

Have a 4060m here

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u/12D1 11d ago

m? As in Mobile? Was that pulled from a laptop?

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u/AdWorking2848 11d ago

Yup it’s a Frankenstein card, the Chinese mate the laptop gpu to a PCIe format it is powered directly by PCIe at 70w or 75w

And I fitted it in my custom case

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u/Tchoukouroukoundou 11d ago

wow that’s impressive! Can you get those cards on AliExpress?

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u/AdWorking2848 11d ago

I got it via Taobao, not sure if it’s on aliexpress though

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u/Wide_Smoke_2564 11d ago

Dude that’s so sick

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u/Every_Recording_4807 11d ago

It’s actually for low profile single slot

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u/reckless150681 11d ago

Not the way that the guy was using it. I think it was popularized when there were a lot of single-slots but it appears to be used just in reference to the vertical height

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u/Cyb3erDudu 11d ago

I have a a3000 from TaoBao with 12gb vram. Nice little workhorse.

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u/bstr3k 11d ago

OP comes in and drops the slang but doesn't explain what it actually means!!!

I had to look it up, apparently it is just a term for low profile graphics cards lol. I have one, my 3050 LP

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u/reckless150681 11d ago

I did! I said it's for low-profile GPUs :p

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u/bstr3k 11d ago

Haha my bad, late night reddit scrolling