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What scenarios does a home server need a GPU? by fliberdygibits in c/main@selfhosted.forum

[-] fliberdygibits@alien.top 1 points 9 months ago

Just about anything Machine Learning or AI, Transcoding for a media server, render farm for something like blender perhaps?

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Do I require PCIE bifurcation? (alien.top)

submitted 10 months ago by fliberdygibits@alien.top to c/homelab@selfhosted.forum

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I have not received all my parts from ebay yet or I would test this directly. I've got a 4 port broadcom nic on the way and it occurs to me I might need a motherboard that supports bifurcation. It's specifically

LENOVO 90Y9355 Broadcom Quad-Port 1GbE PCIe Network Card BCM95719A1904G High

Anyone know offhand if I just bought a card I can't use? It's going in a system I know doesn't support bifurcation but I can't find anything one way or the other about this card.

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Do I require PCIE bifurcation? (alien.top)

submitted 10 months ago by fliberdygibits@alien.top to c/homelab@selfhosted.forum

2 comments fedilink

I have not received all my parts from ebay yet or I would test this directly. I've got a 4 port broadcom nic on the way and it occurs to me I might need a motherboard that supports bifurcation. It's specifically

LENOVO 90Y9355 Broadcom Quad-Port 1GbE PCIe Network Card BCM95719A1904G High

Anyone know offhand if I just bought a card I can't use? It's going in a system I know doesn't support bifurcation but I can't find anything one way or the other about this card.

How do you efficiently document your self hosted journey? by fliberdygibits in c/main@selfhosted.forum

[-] fliberdygibits@alien.top 1 points 10 months ago

Obsidian with it's folders/files in a location that gets duplicated to another drive by rsync.

Got a powerful Workstation, how to put it to good use? by fliberdygibits in c/main@selfhosted.forum

[-] fliberdygibits@alien.top 1 points 10 months ago

How do you acquire a Threadripper Pro with dual 3090s without knowing what to do with it?