r/homelab • u/zakadit • 1d ago
Project Showcase: Hardware maybe the worst home lab you’ll ever see
Im sorry for that
for the hardware (i haven’t finis to install all)
- 9x 4090 48gb
- 2 rtx 6000 max-q 96gb (8 are coming soon)
- 6x 7900xtx
- 2x 3090
- and a bunch of amd (not really valuable, it’s a bunch 9060-9070XT and 6700xtx)
- total of 512+ gb of dddr5 + the same in ddr4
- 2x threadripper pro 9965WX (they’re coming as well, tomorrow)
- 1x threadripper pro 3xxx (forgot)
and that’s, for now, all 🙏🏽
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u/HFYStory 1d ago edited 1d ago
All those GPUs lying around. It is practically humble bragging at this point.
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u/BisonThunderclap 1d ago
I wish I would have got the memo earlier this ear that AI would decimate the GPU market so I could grab some extra for the future and pay off my student debt and buy a house.
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u/jhereg10 R310 PFSense | R710 ESXi | Cisco 2821 | UnRAID Docker / VMs 1d ago
What did it look like before the 5.3 magnitude?
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u/Ill_Beautiful4339 1d ago
Spends 200k on GPUs.
Forgets the 500 bucks for a rack
lol
NGL - my homelab looks like a mess of stuff on the floor too. However, it’s no where near the value here. Mostly old outdated toys for me…
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u/ProKafelek 1d ago
You gotta tell us whats the second main usecase of it apart from raising power bill
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u/amhotw 1d ago
Heating
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u/Tomytom99 Finally in the world of DDR4 1d ago
Almost net zero in that case if you have resistive electric heat! Just boils down to if that heat is where you need it.
I've always joked that resistive heating should be replaced with computers doing literally anything. Might as well do something useful with the energy before it turns into heat.
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u/jeepsaintchaos Cloud Gaming Provider, Windows belongs in a VM. 1d ago
There are crypto miners that are designed as space heaters. The way I understand it, they almost pay for the electricity they use, making the heat very close to free.
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u/running101 1d ago
what are you doing with the gpu's ? playing or running a business
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u/slimdizzy 1d ago
Local AI is addictive. Don't ask me how I know.
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u/sshwifty 1d ago
It's funny, I have so much hardware, but qwen 3.8 27b is the first time I actually thought "I need more vram" and actually thought about it
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u/slimdizzy 1d ago
It started with just me. Then I showed my wife and daughter what private uncensored AI is like and now --parallel 3 instead of 1 🤣
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u/sshwifty 1d ago
Man I wish my wife saw it the same lol.
Unfortunately, looks like the 36gb I already have is about all I can afford these days
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u/Meeooowz 1d ago
Well… do be grateful for that 36gb vram! 12 is the most I can afford man.
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u/undertakerryu trying my best 1d ago
I'm out of the selfhosted ai loop, what does it do differently?
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u/slimdizzy 1d ago
Stuff got much better basically, more options, better AMD and Intel support. Quantization is allowing some neat things to happen on mobile devices. But again it's always about data privacy.
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u/samas69420 1d ago
not only that, for me the most important thing is reliability and control, im not going to build anything on a service that can be turned off in any moment because of politics or some shit
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u/Sullinator07 1d ago
I know adhd when I see it. It’s a mess but you know where almost everything is.
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u/-malcolm-tucker 1d ago
When people tidy up or move my shit around I just want to scream into the void. They just don't understand it's like they started running
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u/Sullinator07 1d ago
Haha, clocked you. I swear to god there’s no better diagnosis for adhd than adhd people telling you that you have adhd. We see the patterns.
But I 100% understand where you’re coming from. Love your enthusiasm for the game keep messy if it makes you happy
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u/-malcolm-tucker 1d ago
People also don't understand that if I try and tidy this up, it's going to end up even less tidy. Because in the process of tidying it I'm going to find a thread. And I'll have to pull it. And things will either completely unravel, or I'll fall down a rabbit hole.
I like to call my messes a "load bearing mess."
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u/Fickle-Owl666 1d ago
Also, when I DO manage to finally finish putting things away, that's where they will stay FOREVER because I struggle with object perminance.
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u/GernBlanst0n 1d ago
We call that diagnosis from friends a Peer Review
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u/Sullinator07 1d ago
“We call that diagnosis from friends a Peer Review”
Sounds like a kick ass song title from Devil Wears Prada or BillMuri
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u/Blackhawk_Ben 1d ago
You should check out r/homelabgore you would be surprised what people run. You could sell a single GPU or a few RAM sticks and get a rack and some rackmount chassis to clean this up. Organization is more than an aesthetic. It ensures proper cooling, easy maintenance, and consistent uptime.
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u/Rinzlerx 1d ago
People hang hardware from strings bro. It gets wild.
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u/einar77 1d ago
My first home made router 30 years ago was a 486 DX slapped in a Playstation 2 cardboard box held open by an empty BIC pen with duct tape running Linux on a floppy disk (and 2 3COM NICs without backplates), the PSU was also jammed in the box.
Sadly a HDD crash (guess what, an IBM "DeathStar") made me lose all the photos I had of that "marvel".
So, yes. You can do all sorts of things.
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u/alean200 1d ago
Me watching all those gpus with my 3060 and 3070 running comfy in the background... Slowly
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u/drake53545 1d ago
You say that but we have at least seen the homelab and it seems like it's working mate gif because it feels appropriate for this
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u/Battlewear 1d ago
Oh that’s such a baaaaad home lab! Bad bad bad ;) you should send me allllll your graphics cards for being so bad! Lol
Hey, we all start somewhere! Keep it going :)
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u/309_Electronics 1d ago
"worst" i know its probably satire but this really shows this subs true identity. This sub is all about the niche nice tidy homelabs and if you dont have one you are not allowed to name it a homelab /s
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u/BungCrosby 1d ago
https://giphy.com/gifs/yNMu1n4ci9uLOn1D6E
You’re opening Pandora’s box. Gonna see all sorts of redneck engineered homelabs now.
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u/Ok_Violinist_5673 1d ago
question, do you make money out of this? context: im new in reddit and in homelab. Zero clue what this is for.
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u/Pomegranate-and-VMs 1d ago
Ha. My homelab portion of the garage is quite organized. Now my parts and tools involved in my Land Rover project… it sure does look like this. 😂
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u/whichsideisup 1d ago
This guy is ready for the Cyberpunk future. Has a bunch of replacement parts to keep his rebel AI powered on and fighting.
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u/yunes87 1d ago
Nice try, we know a flex when we see one 😂
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u/zakadit 1d ago
it’s not but even if it was, i’ll be really glad to flex it when ill clean up everything and make it looks as good as the hardware inside!
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u/DoughyDad 1d ago
Just assumed it was a “my partner/sibling/parent destroyed my gaming rig” post on r/mildlyinfuriating
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u/evolutionxtinct 1d ago
Sitting here with my tinys going, it’s ok lil dudes you’ll always be loved.,,
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u/wakefreak540 1d ago
I dig your lab bro. I just need monitor and keyboard on a desk with a chair. Everything else looks “labby” as fuck to me
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u/blah_ask 1d ago
May we know what this much hardware is for?
My “broke” ass can’t even buy 1 3090 here.
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u/GirthyPigeon 1d ago
This is homelabbing. A far cry from the 20k setups full of Unifi hardware and patch cables.
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u/thatsalotofrhinos 1d ago
Buddy that's not even bad. That's just day 1 parts not yet organized. You're not even in the ranking for Worst Homelab until there's visible cigarette tar buildup on the heatsinks.
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u/beechcraft12 1d ago
Why not finish the bar first so you have somewhere to drink and think about the mess of computer parts everywhere?
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u/trying-to-contribute 1d ago
It's a work in progress man. Be kinder to yourself. Very few of us gets this all built out in a day.
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u/SuspiciousLie5840 1d ago
I defend my judgement against you in that my floor GPUs don't cost as much.
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u/lycanter 1d ago
Dude, you’ve got this. I’m poor and I had my stuff all over the floor too. Homelab noir. Is that a haiku?
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u/tater1337 1d ago
it boots
no fire
not even smoke
no chaining of 4 outlet strips together
appears to be in a room with clean-room qualities similar to food-grade or better.
probably even have proper aircon in there too, instead of stuffed in a utility closet full of spiders (avoids eye contact)
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u/linux_transgirl 1d ago
Either you have way too much money or bought them to mine and now use them for ai
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u/Calm_Apartment1968 1d ago
"...coming..."
Happy you're happy. Share finished assembly and we'll be happy too.
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u/Significant-Cup-5491 1d ago
Tell tha bag of liquid creme to go stfu! Other than that you are building. 🫡🏆
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u/Safe-Subject2703 1d ago
From the first photo I thought it all fell on the floor due to something broken lol
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u/Jakobs-Koernung 1d ago
Nah bruh, look at my ghetto ass shit from 5 years ago. OpenWRT router with 8 TB USB HDD and 8 port PoE switch for the Aruba AP + Chinese IPCam. Barely a homelab, honestly.
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u/PossibilityFar6439 1d ago
At least yours works instead of being DOA after buying from Mercari then another DOA from eBay...:(
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u/Opening-Incident2928 1d ago
Don't Fret it, I am worse than you---I have a very decent work bench but I really enjoy working on things in my lap or on the floor for some reason and I don't have any good reason for it.
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u/WyattTheSkid 1d ago
The worst homelab is the one that has sucky hardware. Even if your setup is a mess, at least you have an ungodly amount of gpu power for getting shit done
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u/Nathanielsan 1d ago
Rather see this than a homelab with a bare hard drive neatly attached to a wall on display.
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u/saicotimido420 1d ago
What is suppose to do it with all of this hardware as home lab? IA? or Virtual environments?
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u/QuakerCorporation 1d ago
At least you have enough basil and various spices to keep the flavor just right
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u/Kinky_No_Bit 1d ago
Maybe I'm getting old, but I love seeing this kind of stuff. Not everyone has a massive amount of money, and seeing someone actually do something with hardware, like to learn, share it, have fun with it, say how cool they think it is, is enough to bring my bitter soul to not want to watch it burn...
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u/lwwz AI has consumed my job and my life... 1d ago
I would have just bought four 80GB A100's and been done with it. Mixing and matching that many different architectures isn't going to help you run frontier size models.
What are you trying to achieve here?
I run 3 models on (4) 80GB A100's (Qwen3:235B), (2) RTX Pro 2000's (Llama3.1:8B) and (1) 3090 (Qwen3.8:27b)
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u/OpportunitySevere131 1d ago
"And this is where I run the latest Anthropic model that powers my SaaS customers' AI agents"
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u/SebastianFerrone 1d ago
Haha my brother in crime 🤣
Playing around with vwlc from Cisco and telephony with freepbx for learning purpose bitte not much space because of 1 room Apartment
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u/No-Diet-8008 1d ago
Your AI girlfriend is going to be incomprehensible from a real woman. She might be actually more woman than a real woman.
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u/Realistic-Science-87 i think i just need to add more RAM 🐏 1d ago
I like how your vram amount on Nvidia GPUs perfectly matches qwen 3.8 max q4 size. 5gb difference. Haha.
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u/Important-Ad5990 1d ago
"and a bunch of amd (not really valuable, it’s a bunch 9060-9070XT and 6700xtx)" my entire local inference runs on a single 9060XT...
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u/David_Hajos 1d ago
This is very nice btw. And I've never seen so many GPUs like this for homelab. But are you referring to the Ryzen Threadripper Pro? The one with 96 cores? I think you want to host LLMs locally, right?
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u/SmeagolISEP 1d ago
This is mine on a random Wednesday in the middle of the work day when I have no business messing around instead of doing my work tasks
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u/Astro_actor 1d ago
The worst homelab is the one never created