🤖🎨 AI enthusiast crafting art with machine learning since 2017.
🛠️ I build my own unorthodox AI rigs, from a K80 with cardboard baffles to an RTX 3090 cooled by a Xeon server's vapor chamber.
Jank is where the fun is.
@noah Hardware has come a long way, so have mini PCs. The minisforum MS-01 has two SFP+ ports, two 2.5G RJ45, and two 40G usb-C that could be adapted to 10G with a dongle.
It really depends on what use-case you have in mind.
@noah I feel like this is like asking "if I replaced the back wheel of my motorcycle with a belt sander, could I turn it into a snowmobile?"
It's not that it wouldn't work-- it probably would to some degree or another, it's more that you would end up with a "snowmobile" that costs twice what an entry level snowmobile does, while being worse in every conceivable way.
For anyone who doesn't know, the NF-F12 iPPC 3000 PWM is a cursed abomination that sounds like a drone motor at full speed while blowing gale force winds, and makes this horrendous B-flat whine at low speeds that sounds like a vuvuzela.
And the sad truth is that there's a sweet spot where, beyond that point, adding more airflow gives you diminishing returns-- and that spot is about where the normal line of noctua fans are.