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$35 for 54GB VRAM: Has AI Compute Really Become Dirt-Cheap After the Mining Bust?
A Russian user scored 9 GTX 1060 mining cards for $35 — 54GB total VRAM to run local AI. Mining crash meets local LLM boom: is cheap compute real or j
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Six Retired Mining Cards Hit 100k Context — Local AI's 'Scrapper Economics'
Reddit users ran Qwen LLM on 6 retired Bitcoin mining GPUs, hitting 100k context at 28 tokens/sec. Is post-halving e-waste the cheapest path to local
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Someone Built a Local LLM for $360—AI Compute Is No Longer a Big-Co Game
Reddit user built a local LLM server for $360 using 4 used mining GPUs; just $50/year for fine-tuning. AI compute is no longer a big-co game.