[xbmcuser]

Just when you think Nvidia will go down something happens that changes it. These days unless you were into gaming or a machine learning dev the integrated graphics were good enough. But now first time in a long time I am interested in getting a gpu for running some of these chatbots locally.

[yreg]

As a very occasional gamer who uses an iMac for work I thought about getting a gaming PC for like 6 years.

Last fall it seemed that all the stars have aligned. The crypto winter and Ethereum switching to proof of stake meant that GPU prices fell to a reasonable level, I knew i would have a bit of a time to play some game during the holidays and as soon as Stable Diffusion was first posted on hacker news I knew that that's my excuse and my sign.

So far I think I have spent more time tinkering with the 20 python environments I have[0] for all the ML projects than playing RDR2.

[0] https://xkcd.com/1987/

[xbmcuser]

When ever I feel like gaming I just subscribe to geforce now service. Around here it costs around ~$10 a month which I usually go go or ~$3 for a single day. And as the servers are located at a local isp no network latency or dropped packets.

[yreg]

That would be more cost-efficient for me as well. But I somehow like owning the hardware instead of renting it. Oh well, at least I can now locally tinker with all the diffusion and LLM projects that are being released.