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  • Hard to find these for under $300 these days.
    by tobi_bsf
  • Is your heat sink entirely unmodified? Opening up the fins should make it a lot easier to cool.
    by aleksejs
  • I've yet to really run mine since I dont have a great solution for the heat -- I hear it pulls 60w straight so it would be mega hot I presume.
    by RALaBarge
  • I have one of these and it has been a fantastic project, and a solid steam machine stand in. Great for emulation and even some recent games. Not mentioned in the post but it is a repurposed PS5 APU. the 8 cpu core unlock that just became available seems to get you an additional 10fps.
    by j-kent
  • I have one of these I haven't gotten around to futzing with, but have two friends who bought two (each) and have been playing with them for local inference.

    Notably we did some research and my one friend has had some luck using the M.2 slot with a PCIe adapter to a ConnectX 3 card and then using that to do multinode coordination (using RDMA and a llama.cpp patch) and has been getting almost 20 tok/s decode out of Qwen3.8 27b dividing it up between two BC250s and a coordinating PC. Prefill is weak though.

    A lot of futzing around so not worth it if you don't enjoy that kind of thing, but remarkably cheaper than buying GPUs or a DGX Spark. (I have a Spark so I really shouldn't be bothering... but....)

    Fun.

    by cmrdporcupine
  • "The ASRock BC-250 is interesting. Sold as a mining card during the crypto boom of 2021/2022, then killed by Ethereum’s proof-of-work migration, leaving many mining farms out of business with many BC 250s never used or even opened. Dumped as e-waste."

    I worked for the farm. We had 20k of them deployed and from what I understand, another 30k in boxes.

    by latchkey

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