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If you're ok with older generation Nvidia gear, but still with 24GB ram, then some people are using things like this: https://www.ebay.com.au/itm/126046615075

If you're ok with older generation Nvidia gear, but still with 24GB ram, then some people are using things like this: https://www.ebay.com.au/itm/126046615075 https://www.ebay.com.au/itm/126046615075 That's $250 in Australian dollars though, which is about US$160. I'm not affiliated with that seller btw, I just remembered the search result from looking a while back. :)

cptskippy 3y ago
I bought one of those earlier this week and I'm in the process of getting it setup.
choppaface 3y ago
These have lots of memory but are pretty slow, can be 50x-100x slower than a gamer card from the past couple years, plus lots of heat / power inefficiency. If you have any software than can take advantage of tensor cores / matrix cores or int8 / fp16 ops then modern hardware will probably win.
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sp332 3y ago
(It's a Tesla M40 with a blower fan retrofit, "Buy it Now" price $300 Australian dollars.)
lhl 3y ago
For not much more (US$200) you can find lots of P40s, which is a generation newer and will give you double the memory bandwidth and FP32. That being said, used 3090s are going for about $600 now and are much better bang/buck and easier (software and hardware) to setup.
smcleod 3y ago
Hey fellow person-in-Australia, I bought a P100 for $250 on eBay and have been using that with some custom cooling I printed and it works pretty damn well. You wouldn’t want an M or K series Tesla though as they’re just too old and not powerful enough to be that useful. Here’s some photos https://aus.social/@s_mcleod/110841559904867676 https://aus.social/@s_mcleod/110841559904867676
- justinclift 3y ago
  Awesome. :) Is that $250 Australian, or $250 US?
  - smcleod 3y ago
    AU
    - justinclift 3y ago
      Cool. Sounds like you got a good deal. :)
      - smcleod 3y ago
        I think it was a fair deal - they are very old cards now require you to 3-D print a fan shroud, but and attach a fan and implement some temperature based fan control ( I whipped up this crappy little golang daemon for it <https://github.com/sammcj/nv_fan_control/blob/main/nv_fan_control.go https://github.com/sammcj/nv_fan_control/blob/main/nv_fan_co...> ). And of course you have to be happy with the additional 30 W idle power consumption when you’re not using it if it’s in your home server, which as I’m sure you’ll appreciate in Australia can be quite expensive now! If they cost more (say $350+) I probably go get a slightly more expensive, but much more modern RTX.
RecycledEle 3y ago
IIRC, an M40 is a pair of GPUs on one card, it has not video outputs, and it sucks a lot of power even for a GPU. I'm looking at used M6000. cards that seem a better compromise at a higher price point.

cptskippy 3y ago

I bought one of those earlier this week and I'm in the process of getting it setup.

choppaface 3y ago

These have lots of memory but are pretty slow, can be 50x-100x slower than a gamer card from the past couple years, plus lots of heat / power inefficiency. If you have any software than can take advantage of tensor cores / matrix cores or int8 / fp16 ops then modern hardware will probably win.

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sp332 3y ago

(It's a Tesla M40 with a blower fan retrofit, "Buy it Now" price $300 Australian dollars.)

lhl 3y ago

For not much more (US$200) you can find lots of P40s, which is a generation newer and will give you double the memory bandwidth and FP32. That being said, used 3090s are going for about $600 now and are much better bang/buck and easier (software and hardware) to setup.

smcleod 3y ago

Hey fellow person-in-Australia, I bought a P100 for $250 on eBay and have been using that with some custom cooling I printed and it works pretty damn well. You wouldn’t want an M or K series Tesla though as they’re just too old and not powerful enough to be that useful. Here’s some photos https://aus.social/@s_mcleod/110841559904867676 https://aus.social/@s_mcleod/110841559904867676

justinclift 3y ago
Awesome. :) Is that $250 Australian, or $250 US?
- smcleod 3y ago
  AU
  - justinclift 3y ago
    Cool. Sounds like you got a good deal. :)
    - smcleod 3y ago
      I think it was a fair deal - they are very old cards now require you to 3-D print a fan shroud, but and attach a fan and implement some temperature based fan control ( I whipped up this crappy little golang daemon for it <https://github.com/sammcj/nv_fan_control/blob/main/nv_fan_control.go https://github.com/sammcj/nv_fan_control/blob/main/nv_fan_co...> ). And of course you have to be happy with the additional 30 W idle power consumption when you’re not using it if it’s in your home server, which as I’m sure you’ll appreciate in Australia can be quite expensive now! If they cost more (say $350+) I probably go get a slightly more expensive, but much more modern RTX.

RecycledEle 3y ago

IIRC, an M40 is a pair of GPUs on one card, it has not video outputs, and it sucks a lot of power even for a GPU. I'm looking at used M6000. cards that seem a better compromise at a higher price point.