Here’s my beautiful unemployed-for-too-long-have-no-money-dont-care-about-looks lab :)
Hey it’s more than good enough to run all this ¯_(ツ)_/¯
Here’s my beautiful unemployed-for-too-long-have-no-money-dont-care-about-looks lab :)
Hey it’s more than good enough to run all this ¯_(ツ)_/¯
My janky homelab lol. Mostly ebay secondhand Enterprise stuff and a Chinese SXM2 mezzanine board to run dual NVLinked 16gb V100s. I also have a TrueNAS Scale mini itx server running upstairs with my “arr” stack and some other useful tools.
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’.
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)
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 +/-.
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.
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
I’ve wanted to make frames like that but those aluminum extrusions are so expensive here. I’m tempted to just get stainless square tube and weld it. The welder would appreciate getting dusted off and receiving the attention.
I thankfully snagged this one pretty cheap off eBay. It’s actually an 8-gpu mining rig frame that conveniently fit my CEB motherboard lol
I think your servers are missing some walls.
I jest.
“the front fell off?!”
They’ve been temporarily removed for about a year now lol
You can bolt whatever you want on those. My friend made his gaming rig like that and the sides are cardboard from his grandparent’s adult diaper boxes.
Now that looks like a lab :)
Thank you 🥹 It’s been quite the experience lol