Qatar supplies a third of the world’s helium, according to the U.S. Geological Survey, but the nation had to halt production shortly after the war erupted three weeks ago.
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Let’s say we get access to those. What can a regular person do with them? Can we use it as a daily driver computer? Or are we talking about GPUs on the cheap?
Im told some of the ram is salvageable.
As i understand, its not the same ram we christians use
I thought some of it was like laptop ram. Damn.
For the H100 and up? They’re headless, basically compute only, as they don’t have enough ROPs to game.
I think the A100 technically can game, in the same way you’d use a laptop GPU not hooked up to the display. They’re kinda like giant RTX 3090/ though, so YMMV.
They’re great at GPU compute apps though, same as any regular Nvidia card would be.
And hard drives! They might be SAS or some stuff though, cards are a bit expensive for SAS drives, ask le and my cheap 3TB drive how we know…