its funny, this little doodad supposedly has an 'npu' in it, and it was marketed towards ai bro types to be some kinda at-home llm-biased thing.
its an asrock-industrial nuks box-255h. its basically an off-brand intel nuc, and its *BEEFY*. its physically smaller than the phobos nucs (we have a fleet of em we ship to customers to do onsite stuff if they prefer that over someone in person) and its easily 10x the power.
but .. how do you use the npu at all?
ollama doesnt support it
its super weird, and i liken it to the copilot button on lots of laptops these days
nobody asked for it, nobody wanted it, and its there, and it takes up space (and power?) but you cant do anything with it because nothing supports it.
who knows. maybe hashcat can light it up, or maybe jellyfin gets another leg of code into its own ffmpeg fork and can use it. for now it sits idle.
anyway if you saw my tirade back in november about a new house server and the absolute gobsmacking price of ram, it went into this thing. the ONE STICK of kingston 6400mhz ddr5 32 gig in it cost me ~238 dollars, flatly twice the price of the 5600mhz stuff. i had 64 gig of the slower stuff but the system had all sorts of problems, and i didnt wanna underclock it, so i had to return it and buy new stuff
no idea at the time, but it was the beginning of the tech drought. now that ram is ~1600
i think 64gig of the 5600mhz stuff was like 150 bux maybe? and i was pissed i had to pay 238 for 32 gigs. the same ram on newegg now just flat out isnt even available.
but im still selling this things predecessor, the nvidia jetson orin nano! the 2tb t500 crucial m.2 disk i put in it is almost 4x in price what it was when i bought it. so thats chilling on ebay now, since it never sold on my garagesale site
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