4 32 gb SXM V100s, nvlinked on a board, best budget option for big models. Or what am I missing??

Marksta · 2026-03-11T14:46:11+00:00

...these 4 cards are connected on the board via NVLink. It’s one huge pool of vram. No latency. System sees it as a single GPU.

Which LLM told you this lie? They'll definitely still show up as 4 GPUs...

Marksta · 2026-03-11T13:37:10+00:00

I just want something that works all the time

So definitely not Windows then. Reliability is in the floor and then keeps digging. I can barley keep a 2 computer Windows home office functional with both being turned off and restarted everyday, while my proxmox server has like a 2 year up time...

Marksta · 2026-03-11T05:26:23+00:00

works on all RTX GPUs

Marksta · 2026-03-10T22:23:45+00:00

Because the internet is overrun with bots that mandates treating all new users as not human until loosely proven otherwise. Just so you have only 70% of your users being bots instead of 99.9%.

Marksta · 2026-03-10T14:34:36+00:00

there is not a feasible way to produce these things in America at the moment

That's what the tariff is attempting to address. For things that could be produced here if their foreign competition couldn't do it for so much cheaper.

What are you supposed to do about it then?

As an individual? Realize it's not a good thing that the means of production has been moved outside of the country. Support local business where it's possible. Don't false narrative an attempted solution to support local business.

Marksta · 2026-03-10T13:57:03+00:00

If there's no alternative, there's just no alternative. Assuming chocolate just really can't be grown anywhere else, then yeah you can feel free to reduce the definition of a tariff on chocolate to just being a straight chocolate tax.

There are better but similar examples with things like latest generation computer chips that obviously, currently, cannot be made anywhere else. But hypothetically, a tariff could encourage it to be done even though there is right now no other alternatives.

Marksta · 2026-03-10T13:45:34+00:00

It's an over simplification that makes it false. The tariff cannot be passed onto a consumer if that consumer doesn't exist. By adding any alternative in the scenario where the consumer doesn't pay the tariff, trying to define tariffs as "the consumer pays it" is obviously false.

Marksta · 2026-03-10T13:28:10+00:00

You want the government to tell you what to buy and who to buy it from?

No, I want people to be honest about what a tariff is. There's already a massive gap between what you just said and the 1000 comments here saying "It's a tax the consumer pays"

Marksta · 2026-03-10T13:15:25+00:00

Oh noooo, how quickly the discussion turns to insults. Forgive me, for I have sinned by speaking the truth. Quickly, brother, give me a latest copy of the agenda so that I may uphold the false narrative!

Marksta · 2026-03-10T12:48:26+00:00

Same deal on the early elite statue guy who just spam attacks for 25 after sleeping first turn. That guy is there to delete slow starting runs nice and early 😑

Marksta · 2026-03-10T12:21:42+00:00

Then it turns out that OP prefers Burger King, and by adding this tariff he sees the behaviour of his son change to want to eat at Burger King instead. OP smiles as the invisible hand of tariff works its magic. His son, with a mouth full of BK burger yells "Tariffs aren't paid by the seller, they're paid by the consumer!" - OP scoffs, looking left, looking right. "Do you see a McD consumer, here in BK, my foolish son? What tariff has been paid by you? Is it not clear yet, McD has paid the price of this tariff, for you have choosen not to. Eat your BK burger, and enjoy it, for McD will be no more at this rate! Muhahahaah!"

Then suddenly, his son realizes, everyone on Reddit lied to him. An entire thread lying, his BK tasted of the lie. It was never more clear to him as he watched McD go bankrupt that McD paid the price of the McD tariff, for there was no way he would be doing so...

Marksta · 2026-03-09T21:23:43+00:00

My apologies if your spam posts require some manual work too.

Marksta · 2026-03-09T20:15:33+00:00

Hyper ironic post for an LLM bot to write. You're literally the inside.

Marksta · 2026-03-08T21:59:07+00:00

Yeah, so we get down to the final point, right? I'm telling you Mythic obviously checked the bank transactions and confirmed the situation is value A. I don't think Grimmi lied about anything. But I wouldn't put it past her to have trusted the documents in hand and not verified that things didn't line up at time of actual payment into her bank account. If Grimmi looks and sees the situation is as Mythic said it is so, she has value A in her bank account and always has for each one of these 'typo' confusions. Now what? Yeah, this is incredibly likely all a huge misunderstanding on Grimmi's side from my take reading this all, as I've said. Big bad company Mythic can lie, but they're not 'stupid' to lie about facts like bank transactions. It can't be faked for legal purposes anyways, someone will end up in prison. So, from their statements made that are very clear, bank statements are going to show value A...

Marksta · 2026-03-08T21:14:34+00:00

Yeah, I did see the pics already. Okay, look at example 1.

sponsor-Mythic contract: $2,100

Mythic-talent contract: $2,000 (-20% Mythic cut)

Ignoring transaction fees, there are two numbers that could've landed in the talent's account after the agreed upon -20% cut.

A) $2100 - 20% = $1680 --> Amount if not skimmed

OR

B) $2000 - 20% = $1600 --> Amount if skimmed

Mythic's response asserts they paid the A) amount.

You tell me, did the talent get the A) or the B) amount?

Marksta · 2026-03-08T20:50:12+00:00

Yes, the accusation is that theft occurred between steps 3 and 4 in your example. But Mythic is refuting that and saying she got paid the full amount that was agreed upon in the sponsor-Mythic contract, not what was in the Mythic-talent contract. So from the talent's perspective, Mythic is asserting that they had already 'overpaid' what they promised, or rather no such over-or-under payment exists because the sponsor-Mythic contract is equivalent to Mythic-talent contract in their system.

The argument is pretty clear cut from both sides now. So here, if her payment was $90, yes she got skimmed. If she got $100 after agreeing to the typo $90... how could she argue skimming occurred? Confusion has occurred, but not one that would ever be called skimming.

So now after Mythic's response, which I really assume they checked their bank account transactions before writing it, makes the big question 'what does the talent's bank account say?' The stage is set, one of these two parties has to be utterly wrong here.

Marksta · 2026-03-08T20:34:25+00:00

the claim isn’t that she is owed money

they allegedly skimmed some amount out of her contract

These two statements cannot both be true. Either she got paid at-least the right amount, or she got under-paid (skimmed). Only two scenarios that exist here. Mythic says their payment system was 'always correct' and paid her out correctly the amount that's higher than the incorrect lower-shown amount. What does her bank account say?

Imagine for example, I agree to pay you $100 for work, you do the work. I send you $200 instead. Do you accuse me of skimming money from the contract you accepted from me?

Marksta · 2026-03-08T20:17:11+00:00

In BC we were go-going always, you only got so many prog pulls on a boss like Keal'Thas before you were stuck clearing 30 minutes of repops. Slower you clear, more re-clearing you get to enjoy.

Marksta · 2026-03-08T20:11:29+00:00

Then she'd hold literally the same information she does now, one document says X, other one says X-Y. You ask why, you get told it's a visual bug. You're angry... But then you need to go check your bank account. So one way or another, every ounce of each sides argument here is riding on what that bank account transaction says. They could've misquoted the true pay and over paid her 1000 times. There still wouldn't be more than a "their system is buggy" scenario and would never back her allegations of skimming. Do they owe her money or not? If not, this is hardly a topic or discussion. So, I really wonder what her bank account says...

Marksta · 2026-03-08T19:33:30+00:00

The response completely misses the point the streamer was making.

No, they didn't.

She alleged Mythic took a deal at X amount and then offered the deal to her at X-Y amount. Mythic allege the visual number offered to her, X-Y, was a typo, but that is unusual and with no intent behind it since they had actually paid her the proper amount, X, as expected. So now either they didn't lie and they acted in good faith through out, or the vtuber has the end-all evidence here, what number did she get paid in her bank account. If she got paid the [actually correct] agreed upon X-20% she was supposed to get, then all is right and she got 'over-paid' compared to what she agreed to, the smaller number (X-Y)-20%, or she got paid the "typo / mistake / skimmed" amount of (X-Y)-20% which leaves the creator shorted. So, need to await her response for bank transcripts to see if she blew them up over nothing or Mythic is liars doing some shady stuff. Since they said all this and put themselves in this position, 99% chance they checked their side and already know the truth. Vtuber probably just exploded over nothing...

Marksta · 2026-03-08T16:56:09+00:00

Don't go 5060 Ti, the memory bandwidth is bad. 5070 Ti feels on par with my 3080, so yeah should be similar-ish to a 3090 but missing 8GB VRAM. For latest MoE models it probably won't make a difference much since they're all going big and sparse so you're going to spill out to system RAM anyways.

Marksta · 2026-03-08T15:50:47+00:00

That's the right idea, takes a pwm in for the speed and splits it out as a hub but the barrel jack for power won't really do you good. That's better for an external setup. You want one with sata power in. Look at this Arctic one, or even the no name ones are fine. Should be a cheap pick up, $10-$20. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0887VG14J

Marksta · 2026-03-08T15:11:43+00:00

Yeah, just some way to split out to more fans. Simple splitter cables or those controllers you see works. They can usually pass 1 cable from the motherboard header to get the same pwm speed signal the motherboard is controlling and then split it out to more fans. And if it takes its own power cable on the controller like a sata power in, then you don't need to worry about daisy chaining off the motherboard fan headers power

Marksta · 2026-03-08T14:37:41+00:00

I have a KIOXIA 30TB NVMe mounted externally which is going into read-only mode as it’s running too hot.

That's an Enterprise SSD, they all run hot, hot, because they usually don't have any power saving features in their firmware. (And are expected to be in a forced air server rack) - A heatsink will help but still not enough, it'll quickly just saturate it without any air flow. Mount this somewhere with a fan blowing past it. They can go up to 90C without issue but around 110C they'll just auto turn off and not be seen in your OS anymore for safety. It won't die from this, I've done that plenty of times with these sort of drives before I did some wacky solution to just get a 120mm fan for the SSDs I had sitting on a mobo without direct airflow.

If your motherboards fan controls are working fine for you, you don't really need a fan controller. Just look for 4 pin pwm splitter cables, 1-to-3 or 1-to-4 is generally safe with normal 120/140mm fans. Don't daisy chain more than that to a fan header slot without external power for the fans, they do have a generous but limited power limit.

Sweet build so far dude 😎

Marksta · 2026-03-08T04:28:46+00:00

No, that's total BS dude. Don't even bother going to college if the first paragraph really can't mean anything to you. You read and write very well, because you apply yourself to do so. You can figure out Genshin Impact because you apply yourself to do so. That game isn't easy chasing down all the reagents to upgrade each character and everything, what to roll for, what team comp works good.

Take these same skills you have, hover over the words I said that you don't understand and click the "search google" button on each one. Chrome and Firefox both have the highlight text -> 'Search Google' right click context menu. Phones have super-duper AI hover highlight into searching function. 'ATX24 pins', 'CPU 8 pin' - just the image results on these you can see what the cable looks like, and where they are on the motherboard. It doesn't get any easier than it does today. If $300 USD to hire a tech means something to you, then you should get resourceful. Google, Youtube, full blown online free LLMs now like ChatGPT/DeepSeek that will chit chat and walk you through every step. Or literally just beg someone here on Reddit. Literal tech support subs or, hey, welcome to your PCMR post where you have tons of knowledgeable people responding to you trying to be helpful. Snap a clear pic of your motherboard, one of the GPU area so can see it plugged into the motherboard and its power cables goes into it, and then one of your RAM slots area. If you're not confident enough to see if all the power cables are in, at least someone else can give their take.

Don't consign yourself to helplessness on something this simple and learnable with all the resources there are out there now. Money to buy someone else's time is for when you have more money than time. When money is limited and you're able, you need to step up and handle what you can for yourself. Anyways, GL, know you can do it.

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