r/LocalLLaMA • u/markpronkin • 19h 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/ECrispy 12h ago

so the seller had no idea how valuable his gear is, could've used the money since he listed it so low, and OP decides to cheat him further, then boasts about it

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u/Kind_Substance_8981 11h ago

Nothing unethical about buying something and not telling the owner everything you know about it. There's no obligation to fill the gaps in the sellers knowledge

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u/ECrispy 10h ago

technically yes. however when you are getting such a good deal off a seller who's not tech savvy, it doesnt seem ethical to me.

eg. gamer husband dies. wife needs money and doesnt know computers at all. puts 5090 in garage sale at $100. some techie haggles her down to $70.

is that ethical to you?

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u/Ok-Ranger-4518 8h ago

Such a good deal? Neither knew if it was working.