Hong Kong customs are all a surprise for officials that try to control the illegal market of products that enter the country. The last one we met was a person who I was trying to sneak up to 84 SSD inside an electric scooter, something normal if we take into account that the sale of this product can make a profit. But last April 28 stopped a vehicle that was trying to smuggling up to 70 old NVIDIA graphics cards through customs.
Specifically, this person was trying to pass inside his vehicle 70 NVIDIA Quadro K2200 cardstogether with 280 kilos of valued live lobsters, which customs have valued in total at HK 600,000, about 69,216 euros. A number that seems exorbitant for 70 cards that are almost 10 years old and that, removing the approximate price of the lobsters, it remains in about 60,000 euros for these 70 cards. According to these approximate calculations each card at 857 eurosa fairly high price for an already old NVIDIA card model.
The reasons why these 70 cards have been tried are not known, the previous occasions with 84 SSD or even 160 processors you can make a business with resalebut it seems that little can be done with these 70 NVIDIA Quadro K2200 cards, since with 4 GB of VRAM they are also not suitable for mining cryptocurrencies.
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Juan Antonio Soto
I am a Computer Engineer and my specialty is automation and robotics. My passion for hardware began at the age of 14 when I gutted my first computer: a 386 DX 40 with 4MB of RAM and a 210MB hard drive. I continue to give free rein to my passion in the technical articles that I write at Geeknetic. I spend most of my free time playing video games, contemporary and retro, on the 20+ consoles I own, in addition to the PC.
