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[โ€“] hendrik@palaver.p3x.de 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Thanks. That sounds reasonable. Btw you're not the only poor person around, I don't even own a graphics card... I'm not a gamer so I never saw any reason to buy one before I took interest in AI. I'll do inference on my CPU and that's connected to more than 8GB of memory. It's just slow ๐Ÿ˜‰ But I guess I'm fine with that. I don't rely on AI, it's just tinkering and I'm patient. And a few times a year I'll rent some cloud GPU by the hour. Maybe one day I'll buy one myself.