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While mining may not be what Nvidia made them for, it's what most of them were sold for, so I think the warning on their likely condition still applies. Beyond
by lhl 3y ago
While mining may not be what Nvidia made them for, it's what most of them were sold for, so I think the warning on their likely condition still applies.
Beyond that, I'm pretty sure that the Techpowerup DB is wrong on the PCIe bandwidth. The first-hand reports I've seen online says the P106's are limited to PCIe 1.1:
* https://www.videogames.ai/2019/01/18/P106-100-GPU-Machine-Learning.html https://www.videogames.ai/2019/01/18/P106-100-GPU-Machine-Le... and 2022 followup on P106-90 https://www.videogames.ai/2022/11/28/Stable-Diffusion-Mining-hardware.html https://www.videogames.ai/2022/11/28/Stable-Diffusion-Mining...
* https://www.reddit.com/r/lowendgaming/comments/135fymv/bought_an_nvidia_p106100_card_for_30_bucks_heres/ https://www.reddit.com/r/lowendgaming/comments/135fymv/bough...
* https://linustechtips.com/topic/1026742-some-information-about-p106-and-some-suggests/ https://linustechtips.com/topic/1026742-some-information-abo...
$20 is a fair price for those that actually need exactly what the P106 provides, but the cheeky flipside argument is that having a near monopoly might make even the e-waste overpriced. :)
- krasin 3y agoOh, interesting. Thank you for the correction. I trusted TechPowerUp, somehow...