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benjojo posted 21 Nov 2024 16:31 +0000

Doing a bit of aliexpress safari again, and while this motherboard looks incredibly silly if you added a load of PLX PCIe switch/failover chips you would basically have a motherboard+CPU that is functionally the same as most big carrier routers

A 8 x16 PCIE slot long brown motherboard, the specs say: Mainboard model:B75 direct 8-card multi-graphics board Motherboard plate type: E-ATX pro Board size: 600 * 180mm M ain chip model:B75 chip Layer number of PCB:4 layer Power supply module:8* 6PIN video card power supply port Integrated graphics:Integration Integrated sound card:No CPU slot type:LGA1155 Memory slot: DDR3 notebook, 1 *slot 1 *channel Peak memory capacity: 8 G^ * 1 1600 notebooks Memory speed:1866/1600/1333/1066 SATA interface: SATA 3 ^ * MSATA*1 USB interface: USB2*2 cup S B3^ * 2( Contains extended) M.2 interface:No

benjojo replied 21 Nov 2024 17:43 +0000
in reply to: https://tilde.zone/users/dashdsrdash/statuses/113522156197365865

@dashdsrdash Yes but this board is not useful for that. Poor PCIe bandwidth to each slot, and poor CPU (it's DDR3!)

It would be terrible for training (where most of the GPUs are in use, and where all of the PCIe bandwidth possible is used), and it would be terrible for inference (where CPUs are far more power efficient etc, and if you are in the market running it with GPUs you would be PCIe bandwidth blocked, plus, DDR3)