STACKING 4 OLD NVIDIA GTX 1080s GIVES YOU LOCAL AI THAT BEATS $5,040/YEAR IN CLOUD SUBSCRIPTIONS4 GTX 1080s from eBay for $400 total - 32GB of pooled VRAM - and a local AI server that replaces subscriptions costing $5,040 a yearEthereum killed proof of work in 2022 - miners dumped millions of cards - developers picked them up for pennies and built local AI rigsOllama installs with one command, model downloads with a second - point Claude Code at localhost through one environment variable and it

STACKING 4 OLD NVIDIA GTX 1080s GIVES YOU LOCAL AI THAT BEATS $400/MO IN CLOUD SUBSCRIPTIONSpeople are pulling 4 used gtx 1080s off ebay for around $400 total and stacking them in one tower to build a local ai rig. that pools 32gb of vram across cards that originally retailed at $700 eachold gaming cards became cheap when ethereum killed proof of work in 2022. miners dumped millions of them and developers picked them up to run open weight models locallyollama installs in one shell command and pu