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Vex_Detrause@lemmy.ca ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

Let’s say we get access to those. What can a regular person do with them? Can we use it as a daily driver computer? Or are we talking about GPUs on the cheap?

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Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
And hard drives! They might be SAS or some stuff though, cards are a bit expensive for SAS drives, ask le and my cheap 3TB drive how we know…

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brucethemoose@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
For the H100 and up? They’re headless, basically compute only, as they don’t have enough ROPs to game.

I think the A100 technically can game, in the same way you’d use a laptop GPU not hooked up to the display. They’re kinda like giant RTX 3090/ though, so YMMV.

They’re great at GPU compute apps though, same as any Nvidia card would be.

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youcantreadthis@quokk.au ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Im told some of the ram is salvageable.

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- Siegfried@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  As i understand, its not the same ram we christians use
  
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  - youcantreadthis@quokk.au ⁨52⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago
    I thought some of it was like laptop ram. Damn.
    
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