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Any chance of a bunch of used gpus getting sold off from this?
No, they're going to use the data centers for surveillance
Unfortunately they would broadly be systems that need about 15kw, and as part of a board that won't work as discrete parts.
So you get it, but you'll need a couple of 60 amp circuits to dedicate to it... Also you have no viable video out
Might be like the AMD BC-250 discarded from crypto. Hopefully! https://bc250.info/
I was hoping the same, but have since been told by several people that know more about it than I do that they are useless for gaming.
I wouldn't say entirely useless. They just aren't plug and play replacements.
I hope you're right.
I hope so
Aren't they using low accuracy FP units that aren't suited for gaming anyway?
Getting those GPUs would be like getting a beat up horse. It's still a horse, just not much of a use anymore
A friend of mine was a big crypto miner but he was kinda crazy. He died young and I helped his remote family process his estate. They let me take his computer equipment. I got a dozen tired GPUs but my dad has been running his 4k monitor on one of those old 1080tis for about six years now and it's still doing its thing. No one has any info on his crypto accounts, all of that is just lost for now.
I still has some use, it’s just that it’s not as good but still useful for people who want to save money and gaming pc builds
OpenAI isn't running ChatGPT on RTX 5090's, they use data centre hardware like the nVidia NVL72, which are entirely useless for anyone else. You wouldn't even be able to boot it as it uses more power while idling than a residential home has access to, and up to 150kW at full load.
That's the last generation. They're moving from Blackwell to Rubin chips now, and the 72-GPU Rubin servers use up to 230 kW.
The typical residential connection in the U.S. has a 24 to 48 kW electrical connection. A block of houses might not have enough power infrastructure to power just one of these server racks.
Those GPUs will be about as useful as a bitcoin miner for gaming. As in exactly not useful.
They may be really useful for running your own local LLM, as long as you don't mind the hefty power bill and jet engine noise.
LLM coops might have a big future