Really tempting but you can get such good computers second hand these days. I got a Ryzen 9 3950X (a few years old but 16 core and still awesome), with 128 GB of RAM and a 1TB SSD for £325. No way I’m paying 6 times that for a new machine that’s 50% faster at best.
For work, we got some of the HP AI Ryzen Max 390 laptops with 64 gigs of soldered on 8000 MHz DDR5 memory, and holy shit, I have never felt such a snappy, responsive computer.
Like the comparison between my laptop with the 13950X and 64 gigs of memory at 4800 megahertz and this Ryzen ai 390 feels very much like when we first started getting SSDs and making the transition from spinning rust to SSD.
And I know that a huge portion of that is due to the fact that the ram is twice as fast. But still, it is simply snappy. It’s nice, and it makes me jealous that these are not computers for me, but for someone else.
You won’t get the AI stuff through. I’m working on a machine like you described and drilled a hole in it to provide power to a 3070 as the power supply wasn’t beefy enough (and server power supplies are too expensive compared to a hole).
This is the first generation where I can play around with local LLMs from what I can tell - even used the hardware for that is way more expensive :(
Really tempting but you can get such good computers second hand these days. I got a Ryzen 9 3950X (a few years old but 16 core and still awesome), with 128 GB of RAM and a 1TB SSD for £325. No way I’m paying 6 times that for a new machine that’s 50% faster at best.
For work, we got some of the HP AI Ryzen Max 390 laptops with 64 gigs of soldered on 8000 MHz DDR5 memory, and holy shit, I have never felt such a snappy, responsive computer.
Like the comparison between my laptop with the 13950X and 64 gigs of memory at 4800 megahertz and this Ryzen ai 390 feels very much like when we first started getting SSDs and making the transition from spinning rust to SSD.
And I know that a huge portion of that is due to the fact that the ram is twice as fast. But still, it is simply snappy. It’s nice, and it makes me jealous that these are not computers for me, but for someone else.
You won’t get the AI stuff through. I’m working on a machine like you described and drilled a hole in it to provide power to a 3070 as the power supply wasn’t beefy enough (and server power supplies are too expensive compared to a hole).
This is the first generation where I can play around with local LLMs from what I can tell - even used the hardware for that is way more expensive :(