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The thieves who stole the trailer truck stand to make quite a bit of money.

The internal storage space of a large trailer truck is ~50ft long × ~8ft wide × ~9ft high, give or take.

The box containing each RTX 30xx card is at most ~1ft × ~0.5ft × ~0.5ft, give or take.

Assuming the stolen trailer truck could be packed end-to-end and floor-to-ceiling with cards, there could have been up to (50÷1.0)×(8÷0.5)×(9÷0.5) = 14,400 cards inside the trailer. That's the upper limit on how many cards were stolen.

EVGA RTX 30xx cards retail between $1000 and $3000 each, depending on the model.

Even if I'm off by a factor of 10× on the number of cards, we're talking about a fortune.




Where does it say that they stole a trailer's worth of GPUs? LTL is a thing[1], so it's totally possible that there's only a pallet or two of GPUs on board. If that's true, even a factor of 10 adjustment wouldn't account for your overestimation.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Less-than-truckload_shipping


Why bother making up so many numbers? The truck could have been any size. There could have been 10 or 10,000 boxes in it.


If it was 10 I highly doubt EVGA would go through the trouble of making this announcement.




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