Meet BBPrime: My $2k, 104gb VRAM, 256gb ram, extremely hacked together AI Rig

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Just a bit of hardware NSFW, we all love a good budget rig. I'm running a decommissioned poweredge 720 (400 on Facebook marketplace) with two xeon v2s (don't remember the exact but it's the ivy bridge, dual processor total 24cores, 48 threads), and 256GB DDR3 ram at 1866 in (4x2 = 8 net) channel configuration. Primary video unit: 2x Tesva V100 32gb, SXM2, with NVLink to 64 total. I'm running that crazy Chinese consumer nvlink board setup you can find on eBay externally, bought the gpus on