Recent content by thunderdolt

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    Using a server PSU with a desktop motherboard... which keeps killing it

    Is 800W enough for that build? Depending on which TR you're running, it could be spiking to 300W or even 350W all by itself. That doesn't leave much headroom for something like a 350-400W 3090 on top of the rest of the system. Assuming 800W is enough, then it does sound like an issue with the...
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    Looking for a 19.5" rack mount chassis for 3-slot consumer GPUs

    I see plenty of server options for 8-10 GPUs, but they're all on 2-slot spacing. That means consumer cards, which are typically "2.5" slots wide, end up maxing those out with only 4 to 5 cards installed (unless they are water cooled, which brings them back down to 2-slot width). Are there any...
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    A40 vs A6000 in dense server configs

    My apologies if this is in the wrong section. Didn't see a GPU section in Hardware so figured I'd try here. I'm looking into building out an 8-10 GPU render node based around 48GB cards. The A40 seems to be, more or less, a passively cooled incarnation of the A6000. The street price of the A40...