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[–] 6 points 9 months ago (9 children)

AI or servers probably. I have 40gb and that's what I would need more ram for.

I'm still salty because I had the idea of going cpu & ram sticks for AI inference literally days before the big AI companies. And my stupid ass didn't buy them in time before the prices skyrocketed. Fuck me I guess.

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  • [–] 6 points 9 months ago* (4 children)

    It does work, but it's not really fast. I upgraded to 96gb ddr4 from 32gb a year or so ago, and being able to play with the bigger models was fun, but it's not something I could do anything productive with it was so slow.

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  • [–] 3 points 9 months ago* (1 child)

    You can have applications where wall clock tine time is not all that critical but large model size is valuable, or where a model is very sparse, so does little computation relative to the size of the model, but for the major applications, like today's generative AI chatbots, I think that that's correct.

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago (3 children)

    I’m often using 100gb of cram for ai.

    Earlier this year I was going to buy a bunch of 1tb ram used servers and I wish I had.

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago (2 children)

    Damn

    Yeah used ram is probably where it's at. Maybe you get them used later on from data centers...

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    Yep, used ECC server RAM DDR3 or DDR4 is basically thrown out. Unfortunately most consumer mainboards do not support ECC.

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