$200 ‘socketed’ Nvidia AI GPU for servers hacked into a PCIe card with custom PCB and 3D-printed cooling — modded Tesla V100 SMX data center GPU runs AI LLMs an
Even though the V100 proved much more efficient overall, despite being several generations old, its idle power draw is the real crux. It sips 45W just sitting doing nothing, compared to 35W on the RTX 3060. Finally, the …









