Comment by 3abiton

1 year ago

3x the price for less than 2x the speed increase. I don't think the price justifies the upgrade.

Q4 vs Q8.

  • > TacticalCoder 14 minutes ago [dead] | root | parent | prev | next [–]

    >> TFA says it can bump the spec to 768 GB but that it's then more like > $2500 than $2000. At 768 GB that'd be the full, 8 bit, model.

    > Seems indeed like a good price compared to $6000 for someone who wants to hack a build.

    > I mean: $6 K is doable but I take it take many who'd want to build such a machine for fun would prefer to only fork $2.5K.

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    I am not sure why TacticalCoder's comment was downvoted to oblivion. I would have upvoted if the comment wasn't already dead.

    • You probably already know/have done this but just in case (or if someone else reading along isn't aware): if you click the timestamp "<x> ago" text for a comment it forces the "vouch" button to appear.

      I've also vouched as it doesn't seem like a comment deserving to be dead at all. For at least this instant it looks like that was enough vouches to restore the comment.

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    • It wasn't downvoted - rather, the account is banned (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42653007) and comments by banned accounts are [dead] by default unless users vouch for them (as described by zamadatix) or mods unkill them (which we do when we see good comments by banned accounts).

      Btw, I agree that that was a good comment that deserved vouching! But of course we have to ban accounts because of the worst things they post, not the best.

TFA says it can bump the spec to 768 GB but that it's then more like $2500 than $2000. At 768 GB that'd be the full, 8 bit, model.

Seems indeed like a good price compared to $6000 for someone who wants to hack a build.

I mean: $6 K is doable but I take it take many who'd want to build such a machine for fun would prefer to only fork $2.5K.

  • The Q8 model will likely slow this down to 50%, probably not a very useful speed. The 6k setup will probably do 10-12t/s at Q4.