alt Hacker NewsA lot of those Xeon e-waste machines were downright awful, especially for the "cheap gaming PC" niche they were popular in. Low single-core clock speeds, low memory bandwidth for desktop-style configurations and super expensive motherboards that ran at a higher wattage than the consumer alternatives.
> THIS will be the excitement everyone is looking for.
Or TSMC could become geopolitically jeopardized somehow, drastically increasing the secondhand value of modern GPUs even beyond what they're priced at now. It's all a system of scarcity, things could go either way.
They were awful compared to newer models, but for the price of nothing, pretty good deal.
If no good use is found for high-end GPUs, secondhand models will be like AOL CDs.