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Buying a V100/older NVIDIA GPU? Run this to check for older memory issues

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I recently bought a 32GB V100 off eBay and thought I was all set with rudimentary tests showing zero issues. But then I started seeing weird VRAM-related errors in llama.cpp. I sic'ed Claude on it, to find that ECC was disabled and that can hide small RAM issues. I believe the aggregate ECC error c…

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  1. 2026-08-21 12:34 · r/LocalLLaMA
    Buying a V100/older NVIDIA GPU? Run this to check for older memory issues

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