In cooperation with Nvidia, MSI, and Datacomp, it was possible to donate several GeForce RTX 5060 graphics cards to schools. This was for educational purposes, so it is possible to show what “it” looks like physically. Well, like this: on a printed circuit board populated with various components there is a cooler made of heatpipes and fins, from which fans remove heat. And a graphics card also has display outputs, from which cables lead to a monitor.
Schools do have large boards (or posters…) with a breakdown of individual components, but then there is another thing—what a given component looks like in 3D, that is, in reality. This was possible to provide in smaller numbers (than banners) for schools where we were physically present (this year as well as last year). In some places these were mock-ups of multiple graphics cards (for example at SPŠT Martin), donated by MSI; elsewhere, fully functional graphics cards were provided. Only one kind, admittedly—GeForce RTX 5060 Ventus 2X OC with 8 GB of GDDR7 memory.
The graphics cards were provided by retailer Datacomp with support from Nvidia, for which they deserve big thanks. It is a relatively cheaper graphics card, but better than none, and it serves the purpose of practical demonstration (at schools) well. These graphics cards were delivered to four schools: Secondary Industrial School Stará Turá, Secondary vocational school of electrical engineering Liptovský Hrádok, Secondary vocational school of electrical engineering Žilina, and Alexander Dubček primary school. We were not physically present at this school, but with the teacher who now works there, we cooperated intensively in 2024 on events at Secondary Industrial Technical School in Martin. So such teaching aids are certainly well deserved.
In addition to graphics cards, we also allocated some PSUs (thanks to Endorfy) as well as accessories from Axagon. But that is for another article. In any case, we thank everyone who sees meaning in this initiative. In addition to the schools, also their founding authorities—this year we were supported by the Department of Education in the Žilina self-governing region and in the Trenčín self-governing region. This is also important, so that we can at least help a little in this area we are trying to support.
We believe that next year we will take it even further and, together with AMD and Asus (for processors and motherboards), it will be possible to secure more samples, as was the case in 2024 with Gigabyte. They left schools with Z890 motherboards that did not pass quality control during production. That is, partially (or completely) non-functional, but that does not matter for educational purposes.
The goal is that during thematic lessons it is possible to have an idea of what modern PC components look like, what they consist of, and similar aspects. About everything that succeeds and under what circumstances, we will write later.
English translation and edit by Jozef Dudáš
