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Used GPU 101 - give it a look and check it trains at x16 (ran for weeks at x8 and didn't know it)

Bought two used RTX A4500s for a dual-GPU box. Both passed every test (I assume) a seller would run. One of them had been training its PCIe link at x8 instead of x16 for weeks - nothing told me and I didn't think to look until the numbers just didn't seem right. Also worth noting: nvidia-smi report…

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  1. 2026-09-18 19:28 · r/LocalLLM
    Used GPU 101 - give it a look and check it trains at x16 (ran for weeks at x8 and didn't know it)

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