# AI enthusiast adds Nvidia Tesla V100 as loud as a lawnmower to gaming PC for $266 — 32GB of VRAM rig can run 27 billion parameter model at 32 tokens per second

> A computing enthusiast has repurposed a very noisy and largely obsolete enterprise GPU (with lots of VRAM) for local LLM inference purposes.

- **Source:** [Tom's Hardware](https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/gpus/ai-enthusiast-adds-nvidia-tesla-v100-as-loud-as-a-lawnmower-to-gaming-pc-for-usd266-32gb-of-vram-rig-can-run-27-billion-parameter-model-at-32-tokens-per-second?utm_source=gearopen.com&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=feed&utm_content=6a65fa52c6d273a7f1b75269)
- **Published:** 2026-07-26
- **Category:** Gaming
- **Tags:** #nvidia #rtx #ai #tesla
- **Canonical:** http://localhost:4321/a/6a65fa52c6d273a7f1b75269

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