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Comment by slowmovintarget

7 hours ago

So a new car, or an AI rig.

That's a bitter pill to swallow. Most of this is the cost of the Nvidia card, and the RAM.

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Keyframe  2 hours ago

$42k and a toy CPU at that. Threadripper or EPIC if it must be AMD camp, although I'd rather it weren't (_always_ some random issues on linux). TBH, if I were buying workstation at such prices, I'd probably first take a look at what HP has (since their cooling and immunity to dust is unprecedented), and then probably BOXX and Puget. For DIY there's always supermicro at such levels.

  • anaisbetts  2 hours ago

    That's what I don't understand, they're shipping RTX 6000s that are PCI lane-starved. Buying a Maserati and driving it around in 3rd gear.

numpad0  5 hours ago 

  Graphics:
    (...)
    +$18,399 192 GB Dual NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 w/ 1000W + 750W PSUs (non-refundable) +$37,239
  Memory:
    (...)
    192 GB DDR5 3600 MHz (4x48) +$1,874

yup, 87.8% of $42,412 is just two GPUs and a PSU. Even RAM is less than 5%.

  • coffeebeqn  4 hours ago

    Really just the GPUs. PSUs aren’t that expensive maybe 100-200 for a good 750W-1000W one

    • embedding-shape  1 hour ago

      Kind of feels like if you spend $40K on your GPU setup, you don't want to cheap out on the PSU.

      Still, you're right, I have a 1200W PSU for a single RTX Pro 6000, cost ~500 something, so still the PSU shouldn't be that large part of the total budget.

sourweasel  7 hours ago

I've noticed that some companies have flat out dropped the high memory configurations from their lineup that were offered just months ago at inflated prices. OnePlayerX had a 128GB Strix Halo tablet, RedMagic had a 24GB Android phone - both have been removed from their sites. It's a similar situation for the new Thinkpad lineup.

  • alightsoul  6 hours ago

    The honor 400 used to be sold for 300 dollars with 12 gb of ram. Now the replacement the honor 600 comes with 8 GB at twice the price.