I bought a datacenter GPU that doesn't fit in a normal motherboard, macgyvered the fan with jumper wires, and now I'm running a model that ties with Claude Sonnet 4.6 on benchmarks, all for £200.
  • Deebster@infosec.pubEnglish
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    3 days ago

    I thought parts felt like AI and parts felt like a British human writing it.

    AI(?):

    But here is the thing: this is a Volta GPU with 16GB of HBM2 memory, 5120 CUDA cores, and I picked it up for about £150 on eBay. The compute is still real. The VRAM is still real. And the memory bandwidth is where it gets genuinely surprising.

    Human (?):

    So I shoved some jumper wires into the connector and jammed the other ends into a spare fan header (turn your volume up)

    I suspect he’s used some AI polishing tool to turn his draft into a publishable post.