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r/LocalLLaMA: an old mining rig bought for $35 had 54 GB of working GPU memory
A fun reminder that old mining hardware is still out there, cheap.
A poster says they bought an abandoned crypto-mining rig on Avito (a Russian classifieds site) for about $35, negotiated down from $60, and found nine working 6 GB GPUs, 54 GB of VRAM in all, with only an SSD missing. The top reply teases them for haggling: "Bro has no conscience negotiating 54GB VRAM down from $60 to $35 in 2026."
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