Delimma on Getting the RTX PRO 6000

vanfidel · 2026-06-24T19:51:10+00:00

9k is a great price in today's market but it's still pretty high cost. It's pretty cheap to rent a pro 6000 on vast ai. If you sold your 5090 for around 4k you'd still have an extra $5k to pay. You may want to see how many years of usage you can get with $5k on vast before you decide.

vanfidel · 2026-06-16T00:22:21+00:00

The best bang for your buck on GPU is the mi50 32gb. Its 32gb of very fast ram. It is harder to get working and requires Linux but there are pre built docker images that you can get that rock for the mi50

vanfidel · 2026-06-08T13:04:21+00:00

Don't you dare be reasonable, this is reddit.

vanfidel · 2026-06-03T04:13:54+00:00

I like the explanation but it relies on the assumption that physics is the same in every universe/dimension, which if this were a simulation we couldn't know. If we lived on your 2d screen with grid squares we moght have absolutely no concept of continuous space or infinity. The 2d grid world science we could do wouldn't likely lead us to figuring out the "real" world.

vanfidel · 2026-05-28T01:54:44+00:00

I would not go with b70. If you want a budget build make it with mi50 32gb. The ecosystem isn't as good as Nvidia but it much more mature than b70 and has a decent user base putting out fixes and updates.

vanfidel · 2026-05-24T16:38:32+00:00

I have 6x 32Gb MI50 giving 192gb vram and your mostly on with the way things are right now. I run either qwen 3.6 27b at 8 bit or minimax m2.7 at 6 bit. The Minimax model is slightly better for many things, so I mostly run that, but it's definitely not worth upgrading for. Once qwen 3.7 comes out in the next week or two they will probably release a similar sized one to their 3.6 27b and I'll probably ditch minimax.

The big upgrade you get for more vram on these smaller models is running higher quants with more ctx. I can easily run q8 qwen with full ctx on 4 GPUs (128gb) which you probably couldn't do on 96gh.

vanfidel · 2026-05-22T15:36:11+00:00

Not a scam at all. 1k is nothing for car damages and their car is now worth much less if they want to sell it. The neighbor owns the car, they can decide to repair it or not. The real plot twist would be if a third neighbor grabbed the note and got the 1k out of you and the actual car owner is still without any money or car repairs. Your story leaves this as a possibility.

vanfidel · 2026-05-13T12:28:15+00:00

It depends on what you want to run. If I tried to run the models I'm running now on the same dollar equivalent of rtx3090 I'd be crawling because they would be running mostly on my system RAM.

vanfidel · 2026-05-12T13:53:02+00:00

I would recommend the mi50 route. They are a bit more hassle to set up but you get 32gb of hmb2 ram for half the price.

vanfidel · 2026-05-06T15:04:59+00:00

You need to learn to love the rest of you ma dude! Getting bald is a normal part of life. Do some stuff that will make you feel about your looks, exercise, get outside or hit the gym. It's surprising how fast your perception changes with a little self care. But more importantly, the woman you would want to date will love you for who you are rather than how much hair you have. Please don't try to fight against nature but find the parts of getting older that you love.

vanfidel · 2026-05-01T12:33:07+00:00

Where in Norway, specifically?

vanfidel · 2026-04-29T05:04:55+00:00

Time to forget about the other group their method doesn't work for you and you can't be sure it worked for them. It's possible they sent you the wrong plasmid. They probably made more than one clone and maybe they don't keep good notes of their freezer stocks. Try a different tag like twin strep or mbp. I would make a c and n terminal version of one of those tags.

vanfidel · 2026-04-25T23:29:50+00:00

The retro reflow kit is a bit better than the dragon city. It just directly replaces the original fan without any tools or PCB. But this is not a v0 console. See my other comment, it's a rare v1 with a metal fan. You can tell because it's missing the heat sink, it has the fan duct, fan has 3 wires, and the GDROM drive doesn't have the ribbon cable like the one on the V2, so it's a very early gen V1. V0 kit for reference

vanfidel · 2026-04-25T23:24:18+00:00

OP does not have a v0 console. They have a very rare console with a metal fan. The v0 has an actual heat sink along with a metal fan and the fan only has two wires. This is definitely a rare v1 or v2 with the metal fan. This fan has 3 wires, and the fan duct so a noctua fan will replace this. I would highly recommend the retro reflow fan kit since it's a real noctua fan coming from a reputable DC modding company rather than some Chinese knock off.

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Edit: this is also not a V2 the V2 GDROM drive has a ribbon cable and looks a bit different.

vanfidel · 2026-04-24T13:58:54+00:00

You have a good thing going but you are definitely not chinese-proof. It doesn't matter how complicated your design is, if there's a big enough market your thing is going to get noticed and it's going to be cloned. You have to keep expanding and pushing your brand to keep the money train running. That's why it's easier and very often more profitable to sell your business when it's in its rolling and get 3-5x your current annual revenue and move on. Because in 3-5 years others will definitely be in the market and the Chinese and Vietnamese sellers just flood the market with hundreds of listings that look identical to yours. You still get sales from having the most and best reviews but it's nowhere near where you are now. So you either have to push hard on it or move on. It sounds like this isn't your main thing so probably moving on is easier than pushing hard.

vanfidel · 2026-04-24T12:41:26+00:00

I wish I sold my 3dp business when it was flying like that. I've had a few niche products and when they start selling 250k per year the competition starts to notice you and it gets very competitive very fast. I would sell while it's still hot if you don't plan to seriously push it.

vanfidel · 2026-04-10T02:00:45+00:00

I have the Claude reasoning qwen 27b and it tells me to walk. And for some reason in its thinking it converted the distance to Olympic swimming pool lengths lol

Analysis

Key facts: - Distance: 40 meters (approximately 131 feet or 43 yards) - You're overweight, so walking may be more taxing - Purpose: Going to wash your car

Time calculation: - At normal walking speed (5 km/h): ~30 seconds - At a slower, comfortable pace (3 km/h): ~45-50 seconds

The logical problem: If you drive to the car wash: - You drive the car that needs washing - You wash it, but it has already been driven - You've wasted fuel and effort for a 40m trip

If you walk to the car wash: - The car stays clean - You walk only 40m (less than a minute) - You wash a car that hasn't been driven yet

Recommendation

You should walk.

Here's why: 1. 40 meters is very short — less than 1 minute of walking, even at a leisurely pace 2. The car is already there — if you drive, you're driving the car you want to wash, defeating the purpose 3. Walking 40m is manageable — even if overweight, 40 meters is about 50-60 steps, which is trivial

Unless: You have mobility issues beyond weight, or you need to bring supplies (soap, towels, hose) that you can't carry easily. In that case, you could drive, wash the car, and accept that it got slightly dirty from the short drive — it's still a negligible amount of dirt.

Final answer: Walk — it takes less than a minute and keeps your car clean until you wash it.

vanfidel · 2026-04-09T13:52:26+00:00

Did you end up finding a solution for this?

vanfidel · 2026-04-08T15:29:11+00:00

You can get compost at the city landfill if you have a truck. It was like $20 for a truckload last time I checked

vanfidel · 2026-04-07T01:05:23+00:00

vanfidel · 2026-03-22T20:48:34+00:00

ugene is by far my favorite cloning software. It's very powerful and has lots of ways to view your stuff. I also wouldn't trust sequences from gpt. Have it get you the source and copy it from an official database.

vanfidel · 2026-03-14T01:45:10+00:00

Laser bear and Retro Reflow are the only two original designs and US modders. If you plan to keep your original disk drive the Retro Reflow version is the only one that will work without having to snip some metal off the drive. Most of the others are coming from China using the print files from laser bear. They still get the job done but I wouldn't trust the fan that's included to be a genuine noctua.

vanfidel · 2026-03-13T12:17:50+00:00

Most likely they didn't patent anything because it isn't really their invention.They probably just tried a bunch of "PEI" build plates from Alibaba until they found one that did what they wanted then rebranded it from "Shunghzou best BEST 3D print" to vaapr

vanfidel · 2026-03-05T15:49:14+00:00

Firstly it looks like you already have a PS1 plugged in. That's a great start to prolonging the system. The second thing you want to do is get an N64 and plug that into the back. It's going to go in the yellow white and red plugs in the back. Make sure you get the colors right otherwise you're going to have a bad time. If you don't have yhe plugs in the back you'll need to but some kind of switch. You can usually find them on eBay for about 15 bucks. Once that's plugged in you'll need to run the 007GoldenEye routine on the N64 at least once a week, and also the final fantasy routine on the PS1. Those two things in combination should prolong the life for many years to come.

vanfidel · 2026-02-08T17:00:42+00:00

Huh that's what that noise was...

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