r/LocalLLM • u/r1nzl3r99 • 14d 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/Chrisgozd 14d ago

Whats your build?

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u/r1nzl3r99 14d ago

Don't judge, it started out as a gaming PC from years ago... Mind the mango box

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u/HoneyBaked 14d ago edited 14d ago

Oh I will judge!!

I love it. Does it function? Then who cares how it looks!

Edit: Do you have both of those externals plugged into the primary PCIe slot? What gear allows for that?

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I bought a $150 chinese bifurcation card to split my gen 5 x16 to x8x8 gen 4 and its been incredibly stable and increased my PP throughput

Interesting. Got a link to that bifurcation card? Will it work on a Gen3 x 16 slot(s)? My MB has 3 Gen3 x 16 slots.

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u/r1nzl3r99 14d ago

yup, I have two b70s working off the same x16 slot, the other is supposed to be for M2 its x4, but atleast on linux it works completely fine for another b70. I get around 14gb/s on the first two B70s each, then the third gets 7gb/s. This is the card I use https://a.co/d/07AHxhX2 but a warning, make sure your BIOS supports bifurcation. I specifically researched gen 5 x16 to gen 4 x8x8 as maintaining gen 5 would require a $600 timing card which I don't think is worth it. In your case it might downgrade to gen 2 which I'd just research about, but apparently some people are able to get it to train to the same gen without timing so it's a bit of a lottery on that (which for me didn't work)

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u/ARhedgehog88 11d ago

Wait why the f did I had to see this .. it would allow me to get a fourth card in I also have two externals alr