A friend of mine recently bought a computer with a really decent GPU (he needs to process significant amounts of non-English content through Whisper, which requires him to use the large model), and Whisper was running much, much slower than expected. It was a custom build, assembled by a small-ish company here in Poland. He opened the machine up, and it turned out there was some kind of foam inside that the company put there to secure all the components during transport. Thankfully, it was discovered and removed early enough not to cause any damage, but we were all very surprised.