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by rjurney 488 days ago
A lot of people build personal deep learning machines. The economics and convenience can definitely work out... I am confused however by "dummy GPU" - I searched for "dummy" for an explanation but didn't find one. Modern motherboards all include an integrated video card, so I'm not sure what this would be for?

My personal DL machine has a 24 core CPU, 128GB RAM and 2 x 3060 GPUs and 2 x 2TB NVMe drives in a RAID 1 array. I <3 it.

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Look under "Available Graphics" at

https://www.hp.com/us-en/shop/mdp/business-solutions/z440-wo...

No integrated graphics.

Author's explanation of the problem:

The Teslas are intended to crunch numbers, not to play video games with. Consequently, they don't have any ports to connect a monitor to. The BIOS of the HP Z440 does not like this. It refuses to boot if there is no way to output a video signal.

Okay, wow I've never heard of one of those!