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Here's my beautiful unemployed-for-too-long-have-no-money-dont-care-about-looks lab :)

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Hey it's more than good enough to run all this Β―_(ツ)_/Β―

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[–] irmadlad@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago (2 children)

OK you'll be able to tell I haven't bought a graphics card in a while, so.......wtf kind of graphics card is that? It's manly for sure...almost phallic in nature. What do you do with it besides 'Any ting you wan'.

[–] pech@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

It's a Tesla P40 24gb I got off eBay a while ago. Just like AllHailTheSheep suggested, it's a server GPU meant for compute workflows so it relies on forced air from a server rack. I repasted the die with liquid metal and added a 3d printed duct to attach the radial blower to. The thing never cracks 60c under inference which is nice. Idles around 24c

(Edit: I'm mostly using it for LLMs, but it supposedly makes a good CAD card, so I might give that a shot too)

[–] irmadlad@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

Nice!! I love seeing 'field expedient modifications.' I have an old CoolerMaster Cosmos case. The thing is a monster. I didn't like the way the fan cooling was operating so I took two 4"/300 cfm fans and mounted them to blow over the two processors of my mobo. Then I printed a scoop for the case and used that as the intake. Works well, better than the OEM configuration and keeps my processors running at a cool 98 deg +/-.

[–] AllHailTheSheep@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

looks like an older nvidia workstation card. potentially a tesla k80 of the top of my head? the annoying thing with those cards is that they're meant to be passively cooled in a temperature controlled environment, so looks like they added a fan to help keep it cool. those cards get mad hot otherwise.

[–] pech@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

I'm actually quite happy with it. It's a 24gb p40 which runs some of the older LLMs quite well. Repasting with liquid metal helped thermals a ton too