alt Hacker NewsThis is the story of how I bought enterprise-grade AI hardware designed for liquid-cooled server racks that was converted to air cooling, and then back again, survived multiple near-disasters (including GPUs reporting temperatures of 16 million degrees), and ended up with a desktop that can run 235B parameter models at home. It’s a tale of questionable decisions, creative problem-solving, and what happens when you try to turn datacenter equipment into a daily driver.
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I saw the same post on Reddit and was so tempted to purchase it, but I live in the US. Cool to see it wasn't a scam!
When you said you paid cash, you paid all ~7.5k€ in paper money? How do you get that much cash out of your bank?
Securing soldered components with epoxy? You have to be very confident at your soldering :) You had no hot glue?
Loved it. You are mgyver. You should post more stuff on Twitter. Thanks for the story.
It's a very interesting read, but a lot is not clear.
How does the seller get these desktops directly from NVIDIA?
And if the seller's business is custom made desktop boxes, why didn't he just fit the two H100s into a better desktop box?
Which is how you learn to become an expert. I love it
Did it behave like a star at 16 million degrees? Lol
# Tell the driver to completely ignore the NVLINK and it should allow the GPUs to initialise independently over PCIe !!!! This took a week of work to find, thanks Reddit!
I needed this info, thanks for putting it up. Can this really be an issue for every data center?