Recommendations for External GPU Docks for Home Lab Use - Lemmy (lemmy.ml)
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mierdabird@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 29 Jun 02:54 next collapse

I haven’t used any but have researched it some:
Minisforum DEG1 looks like the most polished option, but you’d have to add an m.2 to oculink adapter and cable.
ADT-Link makes a wide variety of kits as well with varying pcie gen and varying included equipment.

Bitswap@lemmy.world on 30 Jun 05:30 next collapse

What do you mean connect to the GPUs GPIO?

brucethemoose@lemmy.world on 30 Jun 15:08 collapse

What @mierdabird@lemmy.dbzer0.com said, but the adapters arent cheap. You’re going to end up spending more than the 1060 is worth.

A used desktop to slap it in, that you turn on as needed, might make sense? Doubly so if you can find one with an RTX 3060, which would open up 32B models with TabbyAPI instead of ollama. Some configure them to wake on LAN and boot an LLM server.