Used / parted-out NVIDIA DGX-1 or clone (8x V100 32GB SXM2, NVLink)
server liquidators / r/homelab secondary market · United States
Fields
id
supply/used-dgx1-8x-v100Kind
used-market
Vendor
server liquidators / r/homelab secondary market
Region
United States
Channels
marketplacereseller
Price (USD)
4,000
Price basis
USED COMPLETE 8-GPU SERVER (not a bare card). $4,000 = midpoint of the $3,000-6,000 asking band for a complete DGX-1 (8x V100 32GB); a 2024 r/homelab thread was titled 'DGX-1 for $2,500 worth it' - below ~$2,500 snap it up. Bare 8-GPU V100 chassis (no GPUs) ~$1,000-1,800; loose V100 32GB SXM2 ~$250-450 each. ASKING price, not sold. PERISHABLE-FIGURE STAMP: OBSERVED 2026-10-14. RE-VERIFY BY: 2027-01-14.
Availability
in-stock
Lead time source
structural-na
Lead time basis
lead_time_weeks is null because this is a secondary market priced per listing.
Export controlled
no
Export control regime
EAR 3A001 or EAR99 (Volta below 3A090.a thresholds)
Export control note
Volta-generation system below the advanced-computing thresholds; general EAR applies.
notes
Highest tok/s-per-dollar if you tolerate heat, noise, and software archaeology. 8x V100 32GB SXM2 on NVLink = 256 GB HBM2 total, ~900 GB/s per GPU - tensor-parallel vLLM/TensorRT delivers ~30-50 tok/s on 70B Q4-class, faster than any other entry in this slice. A $3,000 8xV100 DGX-1 runs 70B faster than a $9,000 M3 Ultra 512GB. CATCHES: ~3,000-3,500 W PSU, 200+ dB rack fans, ~300-500 W idle - lives in a garage/rack, not an office; heavy (60+ lbs), ideally 208V circuits; SXM2 needs the chassis backplane. Software age: Volta has no FP8/INT4 tensor cores, FlashAttention-2 doesn't target Volta - run GPTQ/AWQ 4-bit via vLLM or TGI. Inspur NF5488M5 / Supermicro SYS-4028/4029 are the same idea.
Notes
Highest tok/s-per-dollar if you tolerate heat, noise, and software archaeology. 8x V100 32GB SXM2 on NVLink = 256 GB HBM2 total, ~900 GB/s per GPU - tensor-parallel vLLM/TensorRT delivers ~30-50 tok/s on 70B Q4-class, faster than any other entry in this slice. A $3,000 8xV100 DGX-1 runs 70B faster than a $9,000 M3 Ultra 512GB. CATCHES: ~3,000-3,500 W PSU, 200+ dB rack fans, ~300-500 W idle - lives in a garage/rack, not an office; heavy (60+ lbs), ideally 208V circuits; SXM2 needs the chassis backplane. Software age: Volta has no FP8/INT4 tensor cores, FlashAttention-2 doesn't target Volta - run GPTQ/AWQ 4-bit via vLLM or TGI. Inspur NF5488M5 / Supermicro SYS-4028/4029 are the same idea.