So, the saga continues.
After having zero luck with these GPUs in the chassis+mobo I had bought, I gave up and snagged a H12SSL-i + Epyc 7532 + RAM from @tugm4470 on ebay. They got it to me in 3 days (I've bought from them without issue in the past, and that continues to be true).
I also now...
I want to experiment with LLMs, and I generally refuse to use any cloud service. I rent a few servers, and run my own email + whatnot myself (I also completely refuse to pay for any software rental in my personal life, etc...).
I also have been having fun playing with Stable Diffusion and want...
Build’s Name: Box O' Learnin'
Operating System/ Storage Platform: Proxmox + Ubuntu 20.04
CPU: Don't care too much, something recent-ish. Wound up with 2x E5-2650v4
Motherboard: Don't care, lots of PCIe
Chassis: Needs to fit GPUs
Drives: Probably a couple NVMe SSDs
RAM: At least 128GB, >= DDR4...
I just do not understand people who compare a raspberry pi (or basically any common ARM SBC) to this.
Something that boots from a micro-SD card(or eMMC) , and something with a proper disk (NVMe/HD/Etc) are COMPLETELY different worlds. The micro-sd system will eventually poop it's filesystem...
Found one on ebay: D-1581CPU motherboard low-power DDR4 MATX supports 8-bay NAS small server | eBay
It has different pictures, if nothing else. Gah, I'm super tempted.
While neat, I'd like to caution that this is in no way an "upgrade". You're just making the non-volatile config in the VRMs lie to the rest of the system.
Effectively, this is just like overclocking. You're running the VRMs harder then the manufacturer designed them to go, so it may work, it...
Yeah, these are interesting if dubious bits of kit. The fact that it has a pretty obviously custom mounting bracket is also of note.
The label does specify "TLC", so it's either a terrible coincidence, or it's using TLC flash, so I'd imagine it's intended for primarily read-based workloads...
I mean, now I know that, but the patch doesn't exactly help my system from periodically hard-locking 4 months ago.
Kingston is now on my "never buy" list, along with seagate SSDs (I had 3 which all failed!).
Not discussed: These SSDs (or at least ones made before a specific point) have a PCIe power saving bug that causes them to hard-lock on linux:
See Solid state drive/NVMe - ArchWiki
I hit this issue myself (admittedly on the 250 GB version)...
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