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1) Message boards : Number crunching : Nvidia Tesla P100 (Message 71541)
Posted 18 Dec 2021 by SuperNanoCat
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I know this post is a couple months old at this point, but I have some experience with this. I have a Tesla K20m I got for cheap that I'm running in this host. I don't know about the Pascal Teslas, but my K20 has the same 58.4mm cooler pitch as similar consumer models, so if you find a dead GeForce card with the same pitch and good clearance for the capacitors and power connectors, you can swap the cooler onto the Tesla and use an adapter to connect to a normal fan controller to power the cooler. I swapped the cooler from an ASUS GTX 770 DirectCU II onto my K20m and it works great. Only real issue is that you have to remove the midplate that has the mounting holes for the support bracket, which means you have to run the computer on its side or you could damage the PCIe slot. If you go this route, you should probably get some little heatsinks for the VRM and VRAM since they lose the cooling offered by the midplate.

Here's a shot of my card in action and another of the stock heatsink.




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