Nvidia GTX 1050Ti

[Klemper]

On 4/24/2025 at 8:01 PM, dmiranda said:

Nah, this was back in the mid 2010s. All FF browsers post ff 51 or so dropped H/A. 1050 was nor around.

I see, but how any of this is related to 1050 Ti and its inability to use drivers under XP?

[dmiranda]

I find this thread interesting from a theoretical point of view. As I was saying:

On 4/20/2025 at 1:57 PM, dmiranda said:

I understand that the NV GTX 1050 series allows for the deployment of small language (SML) AI (llama, deepseek and such)

I know for a fact that such SML can be managed with Linux. Assuming it were possible to run a GTX 1050 in XP (irrespective of whether it would allow H/A or not), it would then be possible to dual boot (or Xen-parallely run) XP and Linux, so that with one single setup, with only one card, one could enjoy both the XP tweaked shell, interface and software dear to us, and the rush of training a deep learning SLM, even if with a tiny llama of 2b parameters. 

Personally it does not affect me: I have an RTX 3060 (now almost in my hands, yay!). Professionally and XPly I care a lot about it. There are XP systems I built running in some of the darkest places of the world, and a well trained, even if very small, SLM could potentially run in such systems. From that perspective, even a slightly more expensive 1070 would make me very happy.

Cheers!

Edited April 25 by dmiranda