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Unusual designs are still a thing in some markets (mainly china) - for example, a cat themed cooler: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fGGKaX1D9Zo and various anime themed backplates on cards are available from Yeston: https://yestonstore.com/collections/graphics-card


Thanks, Japan is in the same boat.

From full cases [0] including the CPU cooler in general, to themed components[1], when it comes to gaming makers are going beyond and above to create cool visuals.

[0] https://www.dospara.co.jp/gamepc/kuzuha.html

[1] https://www.yodobashi.com/product/100000001009108157/


The ones in the article are boxes only, the actual cards were different from what were represented on the box. Anime-themed products are products themselves in various themes. I'd argue that these two are different phenomena.


Years ago, I picked up a low profile, single-slot GPU that worked well in Linux to throw in old machines when someone gives me one to mess with or recover. The best fit at the time was a Yeston AMD card, and in a world of cards that are all "Black with {{primary_color}}" the choice of blinding magenta made me smile.


That's fantastic. I recently bought a Lofree mechanical keyboard (they're a Chinese brand) and they definitely have the most unusual hardware designs I've ever seen.

Here's one of their mice: https://www.lofree.co/products/lofree-petal-mouse


It's nice to see, but the design feels like it's meant to go into a clear case so that it can be streamed for the world to see.


> anime themed backplates on cards

Anime is certainly weird, but I wouldn't say in the right way.




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