Quote Originally Posted by Kayley View Post
I'm only bumping this because----

Due to all the 'sky is falling' amongst the GPU crypto miners.. you can pick up some A M A Z I N G deals on second hand GPUs atm.
It's a worthy point and probably worth its own thread in the Hardware forum, though I would *definitely* caution anyone looking for something like that to be aware of the way some miners treat their mining equipment. I cannot find the link for the life of me but it went through a whole bunch of examples of abused hardware. Most of it was environmental, like running their rigs in:

* non-climate-controlled environments
* non-humidity-controlled environments
* unfiltered environments
* environments with relatively high levels of corrosion-enhancing elements (like oceanfront properties or rat/mouse piss or roach droppings)
* somewhere that wasn't protected against physical water intrusion (more likely than you'd think)
* a room where the rig had junk stored around/on it, causing physical damage to things like fans or heatsinks

I really wish I could find the thread as it had some of those gnarly pictures like you see from "My IT Horror Stories" threads.

As always, Caveat Emptor.