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He bought old $35 equipment and ran artificial intelligence

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A Reddit user acquired a discarded, rusty crypto mining rig for $35 and found all nine Nvidia P106-100 GPUs fully operational. The rig provides a combined 54GB of VRAM, successfully powering local inference for a 35B parameter AI model at over 30 tokens per second. The equipment was found in a gara…

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  1. 2026-10-12 10:19 · DEV Community — AI
    He bought old $35 equipment and ran artificial intelligence

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