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With the cost of PLX PCIE Switches (allows you to e.g. PCIE 4.0 x16 -> PCIE 3.0 x32) it is actually worth considering just buying a second desktop and throwing
by bick_nyers 4y ago
With the cost of PLX PCIE Switches (allows you to e.g. PCIE 4.0 x16 -> PCIE 3.0 x32) it is actually worth considering just buying a second desktop and throwing in some high-bandwidth NIC and forming your own HPC. Or instead of using desktop parts just going EPYC/Xeon/Threadripper.
Of course it all comes down to the fact that if you need those PCIE lanes, there's a very good chance that it's for your job, meaning that businesses are the target market, not the enthusiast building a homelab for tinkering with LLM off the clock.