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noosphryesterday at 7:09 PM3 repliesview on HN

Home rigs like that are no longer cost effective. You're better off buying an rtx pro 6000 outright. This holds both for the sticker price, the supporting hardware price, the electricity cost to run it and cooling the room that you use it in.


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torginusyesterday at 7:21 PM

I was just watching this video about a Chinese piece of industrial equipment, designed for replacing BGA chips such as flash or RAM with a good deal of precision:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zwHqO1mnMsA

I wonder how well the aftermarket memory surgery business on consumer GPUs is doing.

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throw4039yesterday at 7:40 PM

Yeah, the pricing for the rtx pro 6000 is surprisingly competitive with the gamer cards (at actual prices, not MSRP). A 3x5090 rig will require significant tuning/downclocking to be run from a single North American 15A plug, and the cost of the higher powered supporting equipment (cooling, PSU, UPS, etc) needed will pay for the price difference, not to mention future expansion possibilities.

mikae1yesterday at 7:24 PM

Or perhaps a 512GB Mac Studio. 671B Q4 of R1 runs on it.

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