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So I have a Kenmore fridge with an air tower part W10396926, it is broken and has missing pieces, the frost builds up quickly and it's out of control. I looked everywhere for the part and nobody sells it, unfortunately. I would like to build a new one, is that possible? What would I need to do so? I was thinking of using 2inch insulation foam boards (the green ones) and carve it to shape but I am really unsure how to proceed. I am really trying to avoid paying $600 for a new fridge because a $20 part has no replacement.

Hello everyone,

I plan to start working on a new project for my homelab, and I am interested in hosting my own AI model, specifically Gemma 4 for the time being.

Everything is really floating and I got nothing concrete going on. I am aware of the RAM shortage and inflated prices, but I do have 96GB of DDR4 RDIMM backup that I am not currently using anywhere, and I do have 64GB of DDR4 UDIMM that I am also not using anywhere. I also have 2 sticks of 1TB NVME that I am not using either.

I have a Tesla M40, and two Tesla K80s (I am just mentioning those for completeness, I know they are quite useless especially as they are out of support and have been for a while).

I do also have two Xeon Gold 6132 processors which are not in use currently, but they are part of a 1U rack that I would like to keep for future use as a cloud given its high capacity for HDDs/SSDs (when prices come down, copium)

Anyhow, I was thinking of buying a near barebone T7920 or equivalent HP workstation tower and put 2-3 Tesla M40 GPUs in it, alongside 96GB RAM and two processors that perform similarly to the Xeon Gold 6132 processors.

My use-case is going to be primarily 4-6 clients max concurrently, but most likely it's going to be 1 or none.

I was thinking of buying 2 more Tesla M40 cards given they are quite cheap, and workstation with no RAM and no storage (so I can just whatI have and avoid the current price inflation).

My budget is more or less not settled, but given the hardware I already have, I'd like something less than $1000 total.

I am quite open to ideas and suggestions and probably even increasing the budget if I need to. I am not looking to do this project tomorrow, but sometime before the end of the year.

Any information would be greatly helpful.