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by stuckkeys 550 days ago
At this point it makes sense to just buy an Nvidia Quadro RTX 8000, with 48gb of ram. Especially since I will be using it for LLMs locally.

Also, for gaming, it makes financial sense to just buy a console at this point especially since these GPU prices are stupid pricey.

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consoles only make financial sense if you think about the short term.

They cost monthly, games are more expensive, no cheap future upgrade path and backwards compatibility is a gamble.

Even worse: Poor mod compatibility. There are numerous games that are pretty lame without some community mods, or are fun for a single playthrough but there is a whole galaxy of mods that give it a new life afterward.