I use an older machine/GPU for wintertime heating, mining Monero (xmrig).
Should one get lucky and guess the next valid block, that pays the entire month's electricity — since an electric space heater would already be consuming the exact same amount of kWH as this GPU, there is no "negative cost" to operate.
This machine/GPU used to be my main workhorse, and still has ollama3.2 available — but even with HBM, 8GB of VRAM isn't really relevant in LLM-land.
Should one get lucky and guess the next valid block, that pays the entire month's electricity — since an electric space heater would already be consuming the exact same amount of kWH as this GPU, there is no "negative cost" to operate.
This machine/GPU used to be my main workhorse, and still has ollama3.2 available — but even with HBM, 8GB of VRAM isn't really relevant in LLM-land.