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DIY $200 AI Workstation with V100 Outperforms RTX 3060 and RX 7800 XT

5/11/2026

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Hardware Haven built a $200 AI workstation by installing a $100 Nvidia V100 GPU into a Ryzen PC with a $100 SMX-to-PCIe adapter.
The V100, bought on eBay, produced about 130 tokens per second on GPT-oss-20b, beating the RX 7800 XT’s 90.
On Gemma4:e4b the V100 hit 108 tokens per second versus the RTX 3060’s 76.
When limited to 100 W, the V100 delivered 95 tokens per second versus the RTX 3060’s 68.

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Story summary

Hardware Haven built a $200 AI workstation by installing a $100 Nvidia V100 GPU into a Ryzen PC with a $100 SMX-to-PCIe adapter.
The V100, bought on eBay, produced about 130 tokens per second on GPT-oss-20b, beating the RX 7800 XT’s 90.
On Gemma4:e4b the V100 hit 108 tokens per second versus the RTX 3060’s 76.
When limited to 100 W, the V100 delivered 95 tokens per second versus the RTX 3060’s 68.