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It's too big

Nah, I was just completing the saga of getting a computer my Gigabyte GTX 5090 card would fit in. The smaller computer on the left is the one it wouldn't fit. That big honking card in the middle of the picture is the video card. Those damned things are up over $5,000 these days, and it was sitting around as a paperweight since December because I didn't have a machine it would fit in. It's the one I got from JohnM before the prices went through the roof.
 
haha Gotcha.

Anyway, I need sleep. Been coding and making renders literally all last afternoon/evening/night, and it's now 7:30am the next day.

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That would be a good trick, and I'd consider trying it but you have no idea how big and heavy those 5090's are, I've had whole desktops that weighed less than they do.
 
Otto Von Herunterhängen said:
you have no idea how big and heavy those 5090's are
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Way to rub it in that I don't have one lol.

Btw I remember the craziness when the first GeForce FX came out. The comparisons to vacuum cleaners, space heaters and jet engines. Later things have calmed down quite a bit on the GPU front so I didn't think we'll get back to those times, but still, even the monsters of today still ain't topping that.

Either way, I'm still waiting for my Chinese $200 NVMe slot AI accelerator with 5W power drain. Btw have you heard that AMD has acquired that company that wanted to make model-specific hardware accelerators? I believe I was talking about it in the past, as potential cheap tech. Now I dunno if AMD has bought them to smother the competition, or to come out with something like it themselves.
 
Companies are acquiring about everything and if they are anything like the company I once worked for they have no idea of what they are going to do with it.

I bought that 5090 from JohnM back in December, 9 months ago. He bought more than he could use and wanted to unload one. The cost today, 9 months later is triple what I paid for it.

That's how bad it is getting.

The whole thing has to collapse at some point. The only question is how much of the world economy collapses with it.
 
I mean so far the prices have been sky high less from the actual demand and more from the tech bro corpos selling to each other, kicking up their stock. But stockpiles of RAM have seriously dried up by now so things are probably still gonna get worse before they get better. It's always been more of a RAM issue than chip issue, and now the rest of the big tech is pretty much openly challenging Nvidia. Apple is advertosomg their new chip for running AI too, and everyone and their dog has an ARM chip or another with AI acceleration and unified memory, but for most designs you still need that memory.

Now the Chinese are making their own RAM, and the recent GLM model is getting served strictly from Chinese chips, so we'll see.

We can still get to the point that people will be desoldering RAM chips off old sticks and laptops and glueing them onto whatever.
 
Otto Von Herunterhängen said:
Companies are acquiring about everything and if they are anything like the company I once worked for they have no idea of what they are going to do with it.

I bought that 5090 from JohnM back in December, 9 months ago. He bought more than he could use and wanted to unload one. The cost today, 9 months later is triple what I paid for it.

That's how bad it is getting.

The whole thing has to collapse at some point. The only question is how much of the world economy collapses with it.
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The 4TB NVMe drive from Western Digital I paid like $300 for a couple years ago is now something like $850.

I do plan to drop $200 something on 32GB of DDR4 Ram (that's all my PC runs). That will bump it up to 64GB.

Would like a 2TB NVMe for music (my 1TB is full). But even an "off brand" is still maybe $300 something.....
 
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