Reddit user pays $35 for a crypto mining rig left in a garage and gets 54GB of VRAM at 65 cents per GB
A Reddit user bought a nine-GPU Nvidia P106-100 mining rig with 54GB of VRAM for $35 and ran Qwen3.6-35B-A3B on it locally.
A Reddit user named markpronkin, or OP, bought an old crypto mining rig for $35 from a garage sale. The rig, found in a damp garage, came with nine Nvidia P106-100 GPUs, each containing 54GB of VRAM. The buyer had no prior knowledge of the rig's functionality but managed to test it successfully. The GPU's performance, however, was limited by a weak Celeron CPU and a small amount of system memory.
Despite these limitations, the rig proved to be a great deal with 54GB of VRAM at a cost of 65 cents per GB. The OP plans to transfer the hardware to a better case supporting up to an i7-7700K CPU and 32GB of RAM, with room for 12 GPUs in total.
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