OK.. so I've had this reasonable PC sitting under my desk for ages.. NOT working because of some reason or other. But it was my baby as is housed in a lovely Soprano DX silver brushed case.
SO, I swapped out the old HDD for a couple of SSDs (a couple of mirrored OS disks and a large 2TB storage disk) I swapped out the Nvidia 780ti graphics card for a couple of OG Nvidia 1080ti's. I pulled the whole thing to bits.. repasted the northbridge chip, southbridge chip and central CPU. Upgraded the fans to push pull the CPU heatsink. Wrapped ALL cables in mesh and it's so lovely now. Installed Windows 10 Pro. Installed the Nvidia App. Installed CrystalDiskInfo and all is sweet 😄
EXCEPT... I'd like to use this old bangin box for an HG AI server... now I have read that ALL LLMs need this thing called AVX (Advanced Vector Extensions) I didn't even know that was a THING! So even though I have 22Gb worth of GPU sitting there that I was going to point everything to, because I have a lame ass QX6700 CPU sitting on a kickass D975XBX2 (BadAxe2) main board I CAN NOT fulfill my wish for this OG box to be a headless source of awesomeness sitting in it's home under my desk supplying me with a home grown AI.
IS THERE ANYTHING I CAN DO?!?!?! Surely after all this time of parts getting munched by AI farms a plenty people have been using what's around to do what they will...
Does anyone know of anything I can do apart from just look at it running at 25 degrees aircooled humming along so lovely... it NEEDS purpose!!! 😄
Cheers and thanks all
NB
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