Bruh, its good to have some hope but im sure they will find a way to screw us anyways. Economy goes up, rich gets richer. Economy goes down, rich gets richer.
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FiniteBanjo@feddit.online 1 month ago
Good news is that when it crashes theres gonna be so much surplus.
just_an_average_joe@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 1 month ago
A lot of that memory is at best ECC-enabled, or HBM at worst, so it won’t be…
FiniteBanjo@feddit.online 1 month ago
ECC might be slower but if a ton of it floods the market all at once it could still be a good 2x64 GB purchase. Plus, it’ll be great for selfhosts even if not for gamers.
Creat@discuss.tchncs.de 1 month ago
You can’t put the kind of memory used in servers (registered ECC dimm) into normal/personal computers. It’s not just that the ECC won’t work, they don’t work at all.
That’s different with unregistered ECC dimms, those will work (at normal spec speeds), but the ECC part will just be unused. These are in the minority though for servers, in practice they are more used in workstations.
fruitycoder@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Servers are just computers. You can game on the same hardware the form factor is easy to get around
tal@lemmy.today 1 month ago
There might be some way to make use of it.
Linux apparently can use VRAM as a swap target:
wiki.archlinux.org/title/Swap_on_video_RAM
So you could probably take an Nvidia H200 (141 GB memory) and set it as a high-priority swap partition, say.
Normally, a typical desktop is liable to have problems powering an H200 (600W), but that’s with all the parallel compute hardware active, and I assume that if all you’re doing is moving stuff in and out of memory, it won’t use much power.
That being said, it sounds like the route on the Arch Wiki above is using vramfs, which is a FUSE filesystem, which means that it’s running in userspace rather than kernelspace, which probably means that it will have more overhead than is really necessary.
MalReynolds@slrpnk.net 1 month ago
You’re not wrong, but when/if (joyously, apparently, often it’s more profitable to destroy things for the tax break than to sell them) a significant surplus appears, adapters or new motherboards will appear fairly soon. Even things like H200s can probably be made into co-processors (hopefully running at a sane wattage for home users), as u/tal says there’s already ways to integrate into the linux kernel as (very fast) RAM, I doubt the compute will be left on the table for long.
H200 PCIe5 x 16 card anyone?
AmbiguousProps@lemmy.today 1 month ago
ECC these days is decent, I wouldn’t hate it even in my gaming PC. It’s the HBM that I’m worried about.