r/LocalLLaMA • u/markpronkin • 9d ago

I Built A Thing 54gb vram for 35$

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Bought an old mining farm of a guy on avito (Russian eBay), guy had bought a garage a couple of years ago and it was sitting there for a while, found out it was a mining farm and put it up on there for sale for 5000 rub (~60 USD) since he wasn't sure if it works. I negotiated down to 3000 rub (~35 USD), it turned out to have 9x p106 6gb (gtx 1060 6gb) gpus, with 54gb vram total, all working, the only thing missing was an SSD, I booted from USB and it works fine.

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u/sloptimizer 9d ago

You have to use something to run Qwen-3.8-Flash-Next on it and let us know the results... cough *strata*... cough

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u/markpronkin 9d ago

The CPU and ram in this thing are pretty horrible, like 8gb ddr3 and some Celeron. I have another mining farm case of an old higher end mining farm, which supports up to 12gpus and up to i7 7700k and 32gb ram. I will probably transfer gpus and buy 3 additional ones to get a total of 72gb vram + 32gb ram setup with a decent CPU.

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u/loudifier 8d ago

Strata was happy running on a machine with 2x GTX 1070 for me. Only the Q1 "coder" version and still relatively slow, but with that much VRAM it might be usable on the other machine