I put a datacenter GPU in my gaming PC

Posted by birdculture 6 hours ago

I put a datacenter GPU in my gaming PC(blog.tymscar.com)

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pogue 5 hours ago|

But could you game with the GPU? Or is that purely a drivers issue?

mcraiha 3 hours ago|

I assume you can game with it if you use modded drivers. At least with CMP 50HX that is possible https://videocardz.com/newz/nvidia-cmp-50hx-turned-into-gami...

peibye 2 hours ago||

All that work just to write an ai blog post. This is a cool topic but I just can’t deal with the aiisms.

axpy906 5 hours ago||

Wow. V100. That brings back memories. Way to go.

viseyth 4 hours ago||

Volta (and Pascal, which I'm using) should still be supported with driver 580 as long as you don't use the open modules, and you can use up to cuda 12.9 and cudnn 9.10.2. No need to limit yourself to an old kernel.

markus92 4 hours ago|

It is. We still run quite a few of them in prod and with 580 drivers they run just fine. Very useful GPUs still.

gtirloni 5 hours ago||

> The compute is still real. The VRAM is still real. And the memory bandwidth is where it gets genuinely surprising.

sigh

wg0 5 hours ago||

Wait a few years, everyone will be able to put one at half the price.

jeffrallen 2 hours ago||

Super interesting. I use data center GPUs at work, but I didn't know anything about this stuff.

I also use Qwen 3.7 27b at work and I agree with the author: it is perfectly capable of the jobs I give it.

recursivegirth 6 hours ago||

> The compute is still real. The VRAM is still real. And the memory bandwidth is where it gets genuinely surprising.

Had to stop there. Annoying. I can't stand AI use for writing. It makes any otherwise great article feel so disingenuous.

tymscar 2 hours ago||

Agree. But I have not used AI in the slightest.

Some of us just write that. AIs had to learn it from somewhere.

m0rde 5 hours ago|||

What a difficult world you must live in these days

peddling-brink 5 hours ago||

While I don’t disagree with their sentiment, I’m far more annoyed with it than the AI writing.

m0rde 5 hours ago|||

Yeah. I get that many HN comments are just complaints (heck mine was too and just as negative and shaming). But how bad of a day must you be having to try to shame someone about how they choose to write up an experience they thought was neat. Whatever, free speech and all that. Hope OC's day gets better.

gsquaredxc 3 hours ago||

It doesn’t read like shaming to me. It’s, in the grand scheme of HN comments, definitely on the more constructive side of the criticism. Maybe it could have been reworded, but I think the author of the post could very easily find it actionable in the future. I too had to stop reading the article at that point, so I think if the author wants more people to read, my advice for them is to just write like themselves. We’ve entered the start of a new Instagram filter age where many people feel they need to have LLMs reword their writing presumably for the same reasons as the original filter age. I share OC’s sentiment of pushing against the recent trend of implicitly shaming people for their individualistic writing styles.

qingcharles 5 hours ago|||

Every single HN post has the same comment now.

rafram 5 hours ago||

Only because so many of the articles posted on HN now are AI-written, and badly, too. A lot of tech people are so impressed with LLMs’ capabilities in code that they fail to recognize how bad they are at writing enjoyable prose. And it feels like a chore to write out a whole blog post by hand when the machine could do it for you! But the result we get is so, so much worse and more annoying.

qingcharles 4 hours ago||

I dislike AI prose too, the cadence of it really rubs me the wrong way, but, that said we've had a lot of great, informative articles lately, written with AI help, where you just have to grit your teeth and get through them to get the underlying knowledge.

I don't think that commenting on every article is going to make the posters suddenly decide to go back and rewrite it by hand. Some of them probably don't even speak English natively. The comments are getting more tiresome than the AI prose at this point.

Hopefully in a year or so the LLM output won't be so janky and obvious, so this might just be a phase everyone has to pull through.

fouc 5 hours ago||

That line was the exact moment I also realized the post was AI written. I kept reading though, but I am left constantly guessing at which key details might be pure hallucinations.

tymscar 2 hours ago|||

FYI, not a single line was AI written. If there is a hallucination, it’s fully mushy brain sourced.

SubiculumCode 3 hours ago|||

Honestly, the default styles are pretty bad. I use Claude in my scientific writing in a very specific way. 1. I write a paragraph. 2. I put Claude into concise style mode. I then ask Claude to revise for clarity.

I can write competently, but it's natural direction is towards emotional rhythmic flow that can convey emotion/passion...but which for scientific writing, can get in the way of clear clean communication. So, I write what I mean,and Claude straightens it out...and these days (i.e. not last year), it doesn't lose my meaning that often. And since I wrote it first, these AI-isms appear less frequently, and if they do, I revise them away.

casey2 6 hours ago|

Some resell group is going to have to make this easier. The shear amount of these cards otherwise heading towards the landfill is staggering. That is if Big Tech don't destroy them to prevent model weights from leaking.

Gracana 5 hours ago||

Things like this have started to show up on eBay: https://www.ebay.com/itm/198383386991

  2X NVIDIA Tesla V100 32GB NVLink Water Cooled X99 E5-2686v4 AI Workstation PC

  Item                              Quantity
  Intel Xeon E5-2686 v4 CPU           1
  2U CPU Cooler                       1
  Jingyue X99 Motherboard             1
  DDR3 Memory                         32GB
  SSD                                 480GB
  AMD Radeon R5 240 4K Display Card   1
  NVIDIA Tesla V100 32GB SXM2 GPU     2
  NVLink SXM2 Dual-GPU Baseboard      1
  Corsair Water Cooling System        2
  850W Bronze Power Supply            1
  Dual-GPU 300G NVLink SXM2 Baseboard 1
  8654 Data Cable                     2
  8654 to PCIe Adapter Card           1

segmondy 4 hours ago||

terrible deal

Gracana 3 hours ago||

Yeah. Not linking as an endorsement -- I do think it's cool, but it's not worth it for that price.

eric__cartman 6 hours ago|||

How would destroying the GPUs prevent the model weights from leaking? By the time you get your hands on them the memory is powered off for a long enough time that a cold-boot style attack is impossible.

sethops1 5 hours ago||

Would you bet your trillion dollar company on that? Or would you smash up the garbage [to you] memory chips to be sure.

marcosdumay 3 hours ago||

It's volatile memory, not flash.

Alifatisk 6 hours ago|||

> The shear amount of these cards otherwise heading towards the landfill is staggering.

The thought of throwing away working cards sounds so bizarre to me. I can't believe companies would dispose them into the landfill like that, it is at least worth giving away for refuse.

wookmaster 5 hours ago||

There’s a long history of corporations doing evil things to ensure their business model succeeds

iugtmkbdfil834 4 hours ago|||

I genuinely hope that is the case. The market is absolutely bananas now. I actually now own devices that went up in 'value' since purchase. This is not normal ( and a little scary ). This, on the other hand, is an invitation to properly recycle otherwise unwanted hardware.

xioxox 5 hours ago||

Isn't this the same thing with 32 GB already on a PCIe socket?

https://www.ebay.com/itm/166850431555

segmondy 4 hours ago||

kinda, they put that on a PCIe socket, but it's passive. Meaning no fan. If you try inference on that it overheats in 1 minute unless you have it inside a server case.

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