Hacking a Server-Grade NVIDIA GPU Into a Home Desktop
What's the deal with computer hardware lately? Memory and storage prices have gone stratospheric. A top-of-the-line Raspberry Pi 5 now costs more than $300. Don’t even ask about a GPU — if you have to ask, you probably can’t afford one. With the days of $35 single-board computers and dirt-cheap RAM behind us, we have to start getting creative again, like back when turning Wi-Fi routers into computers was a big thing.
That’s what Oscar Molnar is doing, and it got him a nice deal on a GPU. For about $250, he got an NVIDIA Tesla V100 SXM2 16GB card. The trick is that this GPU was plucked from a data center. While it still has a lot of life left in it, it is obsolete for commercial applications. But repurposing a server-grade GPU for home use isn’t easy. There is no PCIe connector, and the power connector isn’t...
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