It works as expected, in hindsight, I should probably have gotten a 3090ti, I think there are some around $850 on ebay. I did put it in a egpu case, so I use it from my lenovo laptop via thunderbolt 3, I had a few difficulties finding a wire long enough (6ft) but I managed to find one that works. Happy to provide more details. But overall those cards work well. They are likely refurbished cards (they may have been used to mine crypto in the past, who knows, who cares), like they are not new, but they work as advertised. I did use it only for ~10 hours so far, and the payload was mostly stable diffusion (from linux). Let me know if you want me to try anything else. I did not try to connect a monitor to that card; although I see no reason why that wouldn't work as a normal gpu.