> 2nd market GPUs from crypto or ai is the sweet spot of ~10-20% discount on ebay
I thought those were iffy because they were run so hard? If not, I need to go shopping:)
I thought those were iffy because they were run so hard? If not, I need to go shopping:)
That said, a lot of the GPUs used for crypto, don't apply to AI, unless you really want to be constrained. Just be super aware of what you're buying and what you plan to use it for.
The things that were more likely to fail were things like PSU's. One time we had a bad batch of those and had to replace nearly every one of them. We cracked a few open and they were clearly hand soldered by someone in China and shorting out internally due to failed connections. We would see a lot more thermal cycling failure from that than we would from a GPU card that was pick&place assembled by a machine with solder paste.
...story time? This sounds more interesting than hardware prices;)
> That said, a lot of the GPUs used for crypto, don't apply to AI, unless you really want to be constrained. Just be super aware of what you're buying and what you plan to use it for.
Yeah, I'll have to do my homework. While AI would be cool, I'm actually largely interested in running video games, but I keep equivocating because I'm a terrible cheapskate:)