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I wonder what the WARRANTY will be.
It's already nauseating to me to think of buying a $1000-$2000 consumer top model GPU and merely get a 3-year or less not-so-good warranty on the thing and lots of potential problems (HW stability, FW/driver stability & quality, fan issues, thermal issues, ...). Buying $15k+ of them is ... adventurous lacking a really good "I'm going to be able to maintain this low cost for 10+ years" warranty / capability.
It's one thing to buy a bunch of GPUs, it's another thing to have them be reliable "long term" for compute.
I don't personally know what kinds of experiences the GPU miners had but I've heard enough warnings about
"used up" ex-mining GPUs that I gather that there's not an insignificant rate of failures or degradations (thermal pads, fans not working well, whatever).
It's already nauseating to me to think of buying a $1000-$2000 consumer top model GPU and merely get a 3-year or less not-so-good warranty on the thing and lots of potential problems (HW stability, FW/driver stability & quality, fan issues, thermal issues, ...). Buying $15k+ of them is ... adventurous lacking a really good "I'm going to be able to maintain this low cost for 10+ years" warranty / capability.
It's one thing to buy a bunch of GPUs, it's another thing to have them be reliable "long term" for compute.
I don't personally know what kinds of experiences the GPU miners had but I've heard enough warnings about
"used up" ex-mining GPUs that I gather that there's not an insignificant rate of failures or degradations (thermal pads, fans not working well, whatever).
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