alt Hacker NewsIf by enterprise you mean datacenter (which is what CoreWeave is), the "full fat" cards aren't as plug-and-play in a desktop PC as the consumer cards. They don't typically come with fans, and are meant to be cooled using some kind of holistic whole-rack (or larger) setup. Hobbyists do sometimes buy datacenter GPUs secondhand (and I have considered it, for the price/performance ratio) but it's kind of a lot of work and they tend to run hot.
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There's probably still plenty of demand for that. At least someone in the executive team was floating around the idea of buying up some Nvidia cards to run AI models for the entire company somewhere locally. I don't think they'd be opposed to buying up data centre GPUs without fans if they suddenly flooded onto the market, even if that meant getting a rack chassis and a bunch of noisy server fans.
I've also seen someone sell their old fanless Nvidia cards on the local marketplace. There are definitely consumers running these things in their basements.
> [...] but it's kind of a lot of work and they tend to run hot.
Anyone that can open their computer to install an SSD, or a consumer-grade GPU, can install a data center GPU with a fan-kit; it's not rocket science.