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Re:Nvidia cripples cryptocurrency mining on RTX 3080 and 307... by justaguy88 on Tuesday May 18, 2021 @04:34PM (#27200669)
Graphics cards without display outputs are still useful, you can use them for VFIO and gpgpu workloads
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Re:Nvidia cripples cryptocurrency mining on RTX 3080 and 307... by gruez on Tuesday May 18, 2021 @05:09PM (#27201177)
What's the market for second hand GPUs for scientific computing, compared to second hand GPUs for gaming?
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Re:Nvidia cripples cryptocurrency mining on RTX 3080 and 307... by paulmd on Tuesday May 18, 2021 @09:02PM (#27203370)
like anything else, worth quite a bit to the right customer, until they become functionally obsolete (f.ex: nobody really cares about Kepler hardware anymore and it's gotten quite cheap)

https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_trksid=p2380057.m...

now, being that mining cards didn't start at $10k per card to begin with, they won't sell at $10k per card on the secondhand market, but they'll do OK.

at a hundred bucks, why wouldn't you pick one up for your folding@home rig, vs paying full freight for a card with a graphics output you'll never use?

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