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I have four old 24gb Nvidia cards. They're not great but they're not useless either. The problem is that I haven't really figured out a good way to actually use them.

Genuine question; would anyone here recommend any specific motherboard to best utilize these cards?

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Depends what you want to do and which cards you have, but usually going with any older (3rd gen+) threadripper pro setup will give you a lot of pcie lanes.

I myself run with gigabyte trx40 aorus xtreme, but since it's regular threadripper (not pro) with 4 GPUs 2 of them will run at x16 and two of them at x8 speeds

You could ask AI and get pretty far reading the answer.

I know. But this is a forum filled with technical professionals and I would like to get actual opinions from actual humans.

AI is cool but it's not going to have all the good and bad experiences that humans have had with different motherboards.

Actually that's the best part of AI. It has access to experience with way more than the select sample size here.

I'm not entirely sure what your point is here; me asking for humans to give an opinion does not preclude me from also asking AI.

I was just making a correction based on what you said.

"AI is cool but it's not going to have all the good and bad experiences that humans have had with different motherboards."

AI will have more access to experiences than you'll find here.

It actually won't have "had" any experiences though. Yes, it can aggregate stuff from blog posts and reviews and marketing material. That's hardly the same thing.

It goes far beyond blogs and marketing posts, but sure. Keep asking forums generic easy questions instead of AI. That way you can get one barely helpful reply, when AI could give you more details about the subject than you'd have time to read or ability to memorize.

I feel like you're trying to paint me as some Luddite, like I'm against using AI, or that I don't know about it. I know how to use AI just fine. I use Claude all the time. I'm not opposed to asking it, and in fact I had even before you made your glorified "Let me Google That For You" comment.

I just thought I might get an interesting or unique perspective someone here.

Ok look I'm sorry I've been harping on you for probably no good reason. It's honestly just my way of evangelizing the concept of solving your problems with AI, because honestly I see that 95% of problems my friends and I have are easily solvable by AI but we just aren't used to using it for everything.

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