[raw_anon_1111]

GPUs mean lifetime is around 3 years at scale. They are going to need to be replaced anyway

[AndroTux]

That’s okay by me. I’m ready to buy one or two on the cheap

[raw_anon_1111]

By mean lifetime I mean “failure”. They won’t be any good

[jazzyjackson]

They don’t fail after 3 years, just a poor use of electricity once the next generation of silicon hits. It’s not economical to keep the old hardware running when it’s taking up rack space.

[ronsor]

I assure you datacenter GPUs like B200 do fail regularly (within months in many cases), so much so that it's a problem for labs doing large training runs.

[cmxch]

As long as they can be made to work in a consumer or homelab setting, they are still useful.

[raw_anon_1111]

By “fail” I mean stop working