{
  "id": 13932141,
  "title": "Reddit user pays $35 for a crypto mining rig left in a garage and gets 54GB of VRAM at 65 cents per GB",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/12/reddit-user-pays-35-for-a-crypto-mining-rig-left-in-a-garage-and-gets",
  "topic": "tech",
  "section": "Tech",
  "published": "2026-10-12T10:00:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Tom's Hardware",
    "slug": "tom-s-hardware",
    "url": "https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/gpus/reddit-user-pays-usd35-for-a-crypto-mining-rig-left-in-a-garage-and-gets-54gb-of-vram-at-65-cents-per-gb-the-first-test-for-2017-era-gpus-a-35b-parameter-ai-model-running-locally-at-over-30-tokens-per-second"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "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.",
  "summary": "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.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}