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DingWrong t1_j0cp68s wrote

Mining community has been building these for quite some time now. Depending on you TR mobo, you might get away with pcie 3.0 risers. Cooler master has some quality models.

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vin227 t1_j0cut2q wrote

To avoid taking too much advice from miners, the thing with mining rigs is that the amount of data transfer between CPU and GPU is minimal so they can get away with 1x risers, which definitely won't be a good idea on a deep learning rig. This means pretty much no mining rig would function as a deep learning rig.

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DingWrong t1_j0cxdpf wrote

Exactly why I suggest Cooler Master x16 risers. (they don't have x1...) I use the 20 and 30 cm PCIe 3.0 ones as my motherboard does not support PCIe 4.0.

Chassis is the same as a mining rig.

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vin227 t1_j0cxqqo wrote

My point is that OP can not just pick any mining rig and expect it to work. Mining rig chassis are designed so that you can use those USB risers that are long and easy to route. Now when you have the wide and relatively short risers it can limit the physical configuration.

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kaushik_ray_1 t1_j0daqqo wrote

Mining rigs are not best for deep learning. A lot of mining rigs run on x1 pcie lane.

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