[krasin]

> P106-100's were mining cards and locked to PCIe 1.1

This is not exactly accurate. P106-100 were not specifically made for mining, unlike NVIDIA CMD Hx cards (https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/cmp/). P106-100 cards are NOT artificially throttled, but the specs are still very poor compared to modern cards: https://www.techpowerup.com/gpu-specs/p106-100.c2980

It is true that they are not worth the power costs. I merely made a point that gluts of outdated hardware is a thing even when NVIDIA is a monopoly.

[lhl]

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-Le... and 2022 followup on P106-90 https://www.videogames.ai/2022/11/28/Stable-Diffusion-Mining...

* https://www.reddit.com/r/lowendgaming/comments/135fymv/bough...

* 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]

Oh, interesting. Thank you for the correction. I trusted TechPowerUp, somehow...