They said my NVIDIA A16 was defective. So I gave it a 10,000 RPM fan, custom 3D-printed cooling, and an ancient X99 motherboard. Now I have FIVE GPUs. IT'S ALIVE!
I may have created a monster. A client gave me an NVIDIA A16 accelerator that had been experiencing intermittent problems in their server. They considered it bad, didn't want it back, and I ended up with it for free. For anyone unfamiliar with this card, the A16 contains FOUR separate NVIDIA GPUs,…
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- 2026-11-07 17:00 · r/LocalLLM
They said my NVIDIA A16 was defective. So I gave it a 10,000 RPM fan, custom 3D-printed cooling, and an ancient X99 motherboard. Now I have FIVE GPUs. IT'S ALIVE!
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