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  • Used 3090s go for $800. I was planning to wait for the ARC B580s to go down in price to buy a few. The reason for the networked setup is because I didn't find there to be enough PCIe lanes in any of the used computers I was looking at. If there's either an affordable card with good performance and 48GB of VRAM, or there's an affordable motherboard + CPU combo with a lot of PCIe lanes under $200, then I'll gladly drop the idea of the distributed AI. I just need lots of VRAM and this is the only way I could think of.

    Thanks

  • Thank you, and that highlights the problem - I don't see any affordable options (around $200 or so for a motherboard + CPU combo) for a lot of PCIe lanes other than purchasing Frankenstein boards from Aliexpress. Which isn't going to be a thing for much longer with tariffs, so I'm looking elsewhere

  • Thank you, but which consumer motherboard + CPU combo is giving me 32 lanes of PCIe Gen 4 neatly divided into 2 x16 slots for me to put 2 GPUs in? I only asked this question because I was going to buy used computers and stuff a GPU in each.

    Your point about networking is valid, and I'll be hesitant to invest in 25Gbe right now

  • Aren't Epyc boards really expensive? I was going to buy 3-4 used computers and stuff a GPU in each.

    Are there motherboards on the used market that can run the E5-2600 V4 series CPUs and have multiple PCIe Xi slots? The only ones I found were super expensive/esoteric.

  • No, I meant the logic where the browser would prompt the user to review and verify the cert for a particular website without consulting a CA. I run some self-signed certs already but I'd love to implement this in my homelab.