• jas0n@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    I used to buy broken video cards on ebay for ~$25-50. The ones that run, but shut off have clogged heat sinks. No tools or parts required. Just blow out the dust. Obviously more risky, but sometimes you can hit gold.

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      1 month ago

      If you can buy a ten and one works, you’ve saved money. Two work and you’re making money. The only question is whether the tenth card really will work or not.

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          1 month ago

          Graphics cards are so bulky nowadays it’s often hard to even fit two on one mobo, as much as I’d love to see 10 GPUs all linked up.

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            1 month ago

            Lol. I guess you’d need to go to a mining crypto den then, I hear they pull that sort of nonsense. ;)

            But seriously though, I’m not interested in listing, shipping, and dealing w/ customer feedback just to save a few bucks on a GPU, because that sounds like a job.

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            1 month ago

            Really? I’m far too lazy to list things like that. If I was, I’d be buying a lot more than 10 and make a little business out of it.