Rebuilding an old workstation into an AI testbed
I had an old (circa 2012?) Hackintosh, which started life as a Core i5 3570K Processor (3.4 GHz 4 Core), installed on a Gigabyte GA-B75M-D3P main board (LGA 1155 socket, B75 chipset). Basically, a lightly tweaked version of this moarfish build . The Corsair Carbide 300R case (or, rather, the plastic drive rails) were showing their age, the power supply had a tendency to run extremely - worryingly - loudly, and so it was just sort of collecting dust. A lot of dust (see below). I had picked up a new Cooler Master case and EVGA power supply to rebuild it, but never got around to it. Instead, I eventually moved to a maxed out (1TB SSD, 16GB RAM, Core i7-3720QM CPU @ 2.60GHz) 2012 Mac mini server, running the latest macOS through OCLP. Now that I’ve finally decided to pull the trigger and start getting my hands dirty with “AI,” after flopping around for a minute looking at various options (eGPU chassis hooked up to a 2020 MacBook Air running Linux? $249 NVIDIA Jetson Orin Nano Super De...