Also, there are some “former crypto miner“ boards that are configured with SUPER wide slots for video cards exactly like this.
They’re great and cheap used because nobody wants them.
If I have to build a second one, that’s my next path.
I have some nvlinks on the way.
Sooooo I’ve got a friend that used pcie-oculus and then back to pcie to allow the cards to run outside the case, but that’s not what I do, that’s just the more common approach.
You can also get pcie extension cables, but they’re pricey.
I stumbled upon a cubix device by chance which is a huge and really expensive pcie bus extender that does some really fancy fucking switching. But I got that at a ridiculous price and they’re hard to come by.
If I do it right, I could host 10 cards total (2 in the machine and 8 in the cubix)
This also means that I’m running 3x 1600w psu’s and I’m most at risk for blowing breakers (adding in a 240V line is next lol)
I’m rocking 4 used ones from 4 different people.
So far, all good
You can’t buy 3090’s new anymore anyways.
4090’s are twice as much for 15% better perf, and the 5090’s will be ridiculous prices.
2x3090 is more than enough for basic inference, I have more for training and fine tuning.
You want epyc/threadrupper etc.
You want max pcie lanes.
Given the price of P40’s on eBay vs the price you can get 3090’s for, fuck the P40’s, in rocking quad 3090’s and they kick ass.
Also, Pascale is the OLDEST hardware supported……… for how long?
Also, you’ll want to look for strange specific things to host multiple 3090’s etc… on your motherboard You want a lot of pcie lanes from your chip and board. You want above 4g decoding (fairly common in newer hardware)
I’d be hesitant to call it bullshit, but it’s certainly not a smoking gun.
Fair enough. Still nuts.
I guess the vertical and horizontal sync are +5, but how would that be connected to the +5 on USB? Seems unlikely but possible I guess?
There’s no way that charges.
Twice in less than 6 seconds. Like, I really wanted to believe it wasn’t that clear.
It’s so fucking clear.
It’s actually entirely horse shit.
Only the very newest products that are on the latest standard are secure.
It all look secure and sounds secure and feels secure with all the encryption….
But about 2 years ago there was a downgrade attack that was proven to affect basically everything.
Bluetooth security might as well be a flashing neon sign of your data.
Now it’s not quite that simple and some people have updated their devices etc……
But almost nobody actually has done that because Bluetooth devices are “fire and forget”
I mean when’s the last time you updated the firmware on your headphones or keyboard?
Mostly “never”
Yep, it doesn’t feel like a pump n dump, but very public bribery.
Hard to tell for sure, but it’s got a strange flavour to it.
Time will tell.
I hear you. Don’t buy new and be patient.
Used rack mount equipment is hard to find until you have enough contacts. Nobody sells it used because none of the businesses buy it used.
So you can get a ton of it basically for free once you know the recyclers.
Oh look! The oligarch president has decided that “by executive order” TikTok should return!
If only one of us could have seen that coming because an American oligarchy suits China just fine.
Wine used to involve a lot of black magic and trading configs to get things to work.
With the right incantations, and some luck and a few DLL replacements, you could make things mostly work.
3-D rendering was a shit show earlier on. You just didn’t even try. DirectX was everywhere and unusable. It was probably a slow march, but it felt like a sudden boom when 3D started working and suddenly 2/3 of your games/apps would work natively with a smaller config/spell.
Nothing like the lengthy spell castings of early wine. I summon thee brood wars!
Maybe…… but the evidence suggests I’m right, and you seem to have run out of runway.
Have a nice day.
Yeahhhhhhh, disagree that they’re doing a good thing. An American oligarchy works just fine for foreign interests.
The enemy of my enemy is not always my friend
That’s an amazingly terrifying argument. Suddenly the AI hallucinates and exposes nuke codes, or your entire medical history along with your taxes.
All of social media needs an overhaul, but I promise you that the Chinese don’t want the American society to do well.
The Chinese want very similar social upheaval that the billionaires do, but for different reasons, and mostly worse ones.
Foreign governments don’t care if there’s civil war, they may even desire it.
…… not that there aren’t some western idiots clamouring for the same, both are awful.
Hah! So you want to respond but you don’t want me to? Interesting.
The whole article reads like an advertisement.
I’m fairly certain it is.
The Chinese really like having control over major western social media outlets. They realized the power it gives them, and they’re so terrified by the power social media algorithms have that they released a major statement to all platforms operating in China that the social media algorithms are not to create echo chambers and must abide by a set of rules by June I think?
Yeah the rules they put out showed fear of the power these platforms wield and rightly so.
China is losing TikTok effectively, and they want users to move to the next Chinese platform. This article is an ad for it.
The solution came during the budget crisis of 2330 when the Brawndo corporation simply bought the FDA and the FCC, enabling them to say, do and sell anything they wanted