>I am exploring options just for fun.

Since you're exploring options just for fun, out of curiosity, would you rent it out whenever you're not using it yourself, so it's not just sitting idle? (Could be noisy and loud). You'd be able to use your computer for other work at the same time and stop whenever you wanted to use it yourself.

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vladgur 4 days ago | parent [-]

It depends. At my electricity cost, 1 hour of 3090 or 1 hour of Rtx 6000 would cost the same 0.45

Just checked vast.ai. I will be losing money with 3090 at my electricity cost and making a tiny bit with rtx 6000.

Like with boats it’s probably better to rent GPUs then buy them

	▲	logicallee 4 days ago \| parent \| next [-]
		(you should also be compensated for the noise and inconvenience from it, not only electricity.) It sounds like you might rent it out if the rental price were higher.
	▲	justinclift 4 days ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Would a solar panel setup be an option for fixing that? :)