Turkish wedding party receives Nvidia RTX 5090, RAM necklaces, and Intel CPU for elaborate wedding gifts — A Turkish tech delight for the age of PC shortages

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Gold never tarnishes, diamonds are forever, and an RTX 5090 is probably going to be serviceable for about a decade if it doesn’t self-combust.

Turkish wedding with tech gifts
"A-I now pronounce you man and wife." (Image credit: Daily Turkic)

A charming video from a Turkish wedding reveals a delighted bride and groom being showered with opulent gifts, as per tradition. However, this happy couple isn’t seen being weighed down in gold and jewelry, as if typically the case, instead they are collecting the ultimate riches of the PC tech world – GPUs, RAM, and processors.

The video clip embedded below (expand the tweet to see it) begins with the groom being presented with an MSI Suprim GeForce RTX 5090 in white. The multi-thousand-dollar GPU is hung around the groom's neck using red ribbons. Next up, the same wedding guest presents the bride with a quad-channel DDR5 memory kit, again lashed together using red ribbons. If the guy who presented these tech delights wasn’t the ‘best man’, he is now.

Another wedding guest steps to the fore and adds an Intel Core Ultra Unlocked processor to the groom’s gifts. The subtitles read “right now it’s a full computer set” (machine translation). So, we guess bulky items like the case, motherboard, and PSU weren’t suitable for hanging upon the newlyweds.

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Something old
Something GPU
Something borrowed
And something from team Blue

My step-sister married into a Turkish family. It was probably nearly 20 years ago, but I don’t remember her getting any computer tech gifts. The wedding did involve a lot of gold and AK47s, though.

We’ve recently reported on the value of both DRAM and NAND ICs rising above gold, by weight. Such reports may have inspired the Turkish wedding guests in their lovely video clip.

However, we note that while gold never tarnishes, diamonds are forever, cash is king, and happiness is a warm AK47 - an RTX 5090 is probably only going to be serviceable for about a decade, if it doesn’t self-combust in the interim. Meanwhile, a large number of economists and tech watchers expect there to be a sharp correction in the AI-stoked RAM and NAND markets, in due course.

We don’t want to be Debbie Downers about this wedding, though, and wish the bride and groom a long, blissful, and lag-free marriage.

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Mark Tyson is a news editor at Tom's Hardware. He enjoys covering the full breadth of PC tech; from business and semiconductor design to products approaching the edge of reason.

7 Comments Comment from the forums
  • Jabberwocky79
    So, what's gonna go up in flames first - the marriage or the GPU? :sneaky:
    I was already rocking the best GPU money could buy when I married - A GT690.
    If only I had known how broke marriage would make me later :LOL:
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  • setx
    Intel CPU somewhat spoiled the party I guess, but you can't choose the gifts...
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  • Chokkymalk
    Jabberwocky79 said:
    So, what's gonna go up in flames first - the marriage or the GPU? :sneaky:
    I was already rocking the best GPU money could buy when I married - A GT690.
    If only I had known how broke marriage would make me later :LOL:
    I never understood why straight men hate their wives so much. It's such a weird flex.
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  • TechieTwo
    Do these folks actually have a life? :disappointed:
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  • Lamarr the Strelok
    Chokkymalk said:
    I never understood why straight men hate their wives so much. It's such a weird flex.
    It's like many relationships I think.Hubbies call it ball and chain ,ladies say I only keep him around for 'manly' tasks. Sometimes that playfulness can turn truly negative.Solution? Don't deal with humans unless it's mandatory.
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  • Adrian the Alchemist
    Chokkymalk said:
    I never understood why straight men hate their wives so much. It's such a weird flex.
    After 30 years I still love my wife dearly, given I had a stroke last month and she was either by my bed or driving hundreds of miles between home and hospital she must also care for me.
    There's a tradition in Northen English comedy where wife's and mother-in-laws are joked about, although not so now as opposed to 50 years ago.
    As for the story I know in Greek weddings money is pinned on the brides dress but given most families have at least one creepy uncle perhaps that's not done so much
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  • Lamarr the Strelok
    That's great. I admire marriages that last decades.It's not easy. And here in the US it seems whining about your mother in law is still fairly common I think. Plenty of comedians use it.
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