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boredatoms • yesterday at 7:46 PM • 3 replies • view on HN

Lots of the newer stuff is watercooled

Yes they use pcie electrically, but its not the same slot shape and there is usually carrier boards

You wouldn’t repurpose these for home gaming, it would still be for llms


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overfeed • today at 7:49 AM

> there is usually carrier boards

You can order the SXM carrier boards on eBay/Alibaba today.

> You wouldn’t repurpose these for home gaming, it would still be for llms

When small businesses, home-labbers and prosumers have cheap access to potent GPUs, there will be a Cambrian explosion of grassroots creativity and innovation in areas that are "beneath" AI labs expansive ambitions; I want to see the OBS-equivalent of LLMs. Hell, I'd love to see what some broke artist can do with OBS, an H100, and an open video model.

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marcyb5st • yesterday at 7:58 PM

Indeed, also even the air cooled ones are designed for high static pressure fans (ie small fans that spin at really high RPMs). Those fans are really really loud.

You can just mod them to run on consumer fans that are designed to spin much slower but have higher diameter

KellyCriterion • yesterday at 10:22 PM

would it be possible to sell this stuff to any of these "crypto" companies for mining or whatever tasks?