... is the ram used in data centers even compatible with desktop PC. I hear a lot "cheap ram when bubble bursts"

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[–] 18 points 11 months ago (7 children)

No. Its ecc ram and most PC motherboards aren't compatible with it. If it crashes we might have cheap GPUs and cheap cloud gaming.

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  • [–] 12 points 11 months ago

    Unfortunately not even then. Nowadays the GPUs are a pretty alien form factor, usually not pcie cards. SXM and now HGX.

    Datacenter gear has resembled consumer systems less and less after a period of getting closer in the 90s and 2000s.

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  • [–] 12 points 11 months ago (3 children)

    The datacentre GPUs are also useless for consumers. They don't have video output.

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  • [–] 5 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    That's not much of an issue these days, you can offload rendering pretty much wherever in Linux. Level1Techs has a whole section on their forums on SR-IOV and working with offloaded compute in homelabs for awhile now.

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  • [–] 1 point 11 months ago

    Probably not someone that a consumer would want to do unless they're interested in the challenge.

    I forgot about the absence of PCIe connectors until jj4211 mentioned it in another comment. That would also be problematic for consumer use. I know it's possible to do the conversion as I've looked into it in the past, but it doesn't come cheap.

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