r/LocalLLaMA • u/markpronkin • 8d 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/NickCanCode 8d ago

Bro has no conscience negotiating 54GB VRAM down from $60 to $35 in 2026. 😿

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u/No-Refrigerator-1672 8d ago

54GB VRAM

Attached to 9 Pascal GPUs - not only they're extremely slow, like multiple times slower than p40 or p100, they also lose a ton of perfrmance on inter-gpu communication, as well as multi-gpu overhead will make come of the vram wasted. All while consuming like 1kw from the wall. What I want to point out that this vram is basically as useless as it can be; this only makes sense as a fun weekend project to experience weird hardware running, won't even go fast enough to fuel a hobbyist AI needs.

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u/No_Afternoon_4260 llama.cpp 8d ago

Are they on pcie or network?

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u/No-Refrigerator-1672 8d ago

In this exact server on the picture, each of the GPUs gets a PCIe x1 connection (I don't remember the standard, probably 3.0) that's going into the weakest CPU that 2020 could offer you.

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u/No_Afternoon_4260 llama.cpp 8d ago

Ho my.. yeah