I’ve built a many. Biggest problem now is finding an affordable GPU that’ll last about 10 years.
I’ve got a few older ones sitting around that I need to get working again.
I think, if you are thinking of doing another, I would build it and set it on a shelf if you dint need it yet. Itvisnt about yiur skill, but unless you are going to mine, smelt and solder everything yourself, you just may not have any parts to do it when you want it.
If you hang in there for a while, I have seen that prices seem to be slowly dropping. At least that is the reporting I have seen.
If I had to put a modest AI capable system together right now I would opt for a Ryzen mobo with slots that could handle two GPUs and I’d put two Nvidia 5060 ti 16GB version cards on it for a total of 32GB.. these cards are at 800.00 ea just now.. u can do slightly cheaper using 16GB AMD cards but I’d opt for Nvidia to get CUDA.
And I’d put 64GB of system ram on it, 1000w power supply, 2tb SSD...
I think we have said goodby to the 5090 cards as China is harvesting them to build AI gear... glad I scored two of them before the recent jump to around 10,000USD
I read the other day that there are shops in China that are buying up all the RTX5090s the can find, retrofitting them with heftier cooling, and loading them into AI server farm racks. Which explains why we can’t get one even if we were willing to pay the exorbitant price.
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