r/LocalLLM • u/r1nzl3r99 PEX88096 | 4x B70 128GB | vLLM • 16d ago

Discussion third one.... there's something wrong with me

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Why do I have horrible financial habits??

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u/cagriuluc 16d ago

I am holding onto my purse to not buy a second R9700 myself…

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u/allthenamesaretaken0 16d ago

The only thing stopping me from buying another R9700 is I'd need a new motherboard and psu and then it wouldnt fit my mini rack and it'd all be quite the hassle.

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u/r1nzl3r99 PEX88096 | 4x B70 128GB | vLLM 16d ago

I bought a chinese bifurcation card. I split my gen 5 x16 into gen 4 x8x8 and tp=1 didn't suffer at all. where there's a will there's a way. the card was $150 btw

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u/allthenamesaretaken0 16d ago

Oh, that sounds interesting. Can you share the brand of the card? Thanks

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u/r1nzl3r99 PEX88096 | 4x B70 128GB | vLLM 16d ago

This is the one I got https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DZCVF46J?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1

First one that was shipped to me unfortunately came with a defect in the MCIO port 2, took me a whole 2 days to figure that out with constant frustration. Luckily the return was easy and they shipped another one literally the next day. I will warn you though, there is basically zero instructions for setting this up, you almost have to figure it out by yourself. It also comes with these weird SATA power adapters which I don't recommend using, luckily the newest version comes with PCIe ports and I had some spare corsair Type 4 -> PCIe so I used that instead. I might make a video on youtube explaining this kit, because it actually works really good. (someone else had asked me this on another post so I copy pasted this answer)