Selling per kilo? Store jokes about the excess of second-hand GPUs

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The fever for cryptocurrencies led to a period of hoarding and scarcity that worked against the common user as in different parts of the world, enthusiasts looking to take advantage of the hype to make money swooped in to buy as many GPUs as possible. Then came the downfall of this business and many graphics cards were orphaned, although now they are a good business for local vendors.

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Second-hand FPUs are an interesting business for local sellers

In recent days, an image and a video emerged showing a vendor in a Vietnam store with stacks of Nvidia and AMD GPUs on the street, accompanied by a scale, and insinuating that the merchandise was so numerous and the price had risen. collapsed so much that the only option was to sell the hardware by weight and not by unit. The lack of context suggested that the situation around the GPU business was such that Asia had reached this level, but it is really a matter of perspective.

The store in Vietnam does not sell GPUs by the kilo, but they do sell second-hand GPUs and they have many

What happens is nothing more than the publication of the Vietnamese trader Lê Thành, who claims to be one of the best in the sector in the country. Properly, he is not selling the GPUs by the kilo, but it is a fact that he has many second-hand units that were no longer used for cryptocurrency mining. Checking their profile on Facebook, this store has new equipment from Nvidia and AMD, but also has an offer of used GPUs that are cheaper.

In the context of the fall in the price of cryptocurrencies, miners in Asia got rid of their equipment, generating a scene of second-hand unit sales that drew attention from the first moment due to the lack of guarantees and without knowing how long it would last. sold out on these teams.

Since we are talking about graphics cards, we remind you that Nvidia is not having such a good time because a detail in the connectors of the RTX 4090 is causing meltdowns that put users’ PCs at risk.

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