Since AI has spread in all aspects of the technological sector, I was more than tempted to try some of the cooler AI applications. This growing temptation finally resulted in me by building a desktop computer just for AI – to try me at the room coding applications just for fun.
My budget was not so high, so for construction, I landed on an AMD Ryzen 5 2400g processor with a basic clock speed of 3.6 GHz and an NVIDIA RTX 3090 video card. This combination was validated by my online PC manufacturers as fully suited to AI, so I felt confident that I was on a good thing.
And they were not mistaken! My new PC has worked well for my new pastime, which allows me to create simple applications in deputy. But with the gift of hindsight, I realize now that I made a big mistake with my construction, and I regret it deeply.
The problem was and is always that I had built a PC adapted to a single use case, and in doing so, it has since become obsolete for my life. I arrived at the configuration of my rigging by breaking without knowing it one of the least spoken rules of life: “Do you know.”
By that I mean two things: the first is that in my life, I have the chance of Buckley to compartmentalize my devices for a single use – I am simply too busy and ended up using them for everything. My phone is the classic example of this – this is my mobile note, my repository for vacation snaps, and my communication hub, all in one.
Second, I had neglected a personality trait that I sometimes present, the one I share with the character Toad in the history of classical children The wind in the willowsAnd it is the tendency to work on a new hobby that can last several months, but I then lose interest quickly and stop it suddenly.
Of course, I should have known that AI was the most recent of these temporary hobbies, which will soon be replaced by something else.
These two supervisors would not have been a problem if I had selected more versatile equipment for my PC IA. But I had chosen components similar to potatoes, adapted to LLMs in progress but not much more. This AHA! The time has come after a long coding session when I decided to rest the neurons and load a game of Counterstrike: go.
My Spiffy Ai PC, which, until then, I had otherwise collapsed, has become an insubordinate nuisance at this very moment.
Yes, I had a decent graphics card, but my PC was seriously a bottleneck at the CPU and no number of parameter changes was going to improve this. Like most players, I have a minimum image frequency that I just can’t bear to play below – it’s 60 images per second.
The best I have been able to make on my IA PC, even in games with cartoons, was a meager 40FPS – so it was not very useful for any serious type of game.
Building a PC with a limited capacity was not a great idea.
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Of course, I could have changed the CPU for a more powerful CPU, but I also had other bottlenecks; Like the slow 8 GB of Ram on board, and such a under-sheds, it was only really suitable for running the lights in a chicken coop.
If I had to find a moral in all this, as in a family discussion session at the end of a cheese sitcom from the 1990s, it would be: do not build a PC for a single application; Reach higher with your hardware specifications from the start and build a more powerful and versatile platform capable of a whole bunch of things. If you do, you will save a ton of hassle and may also be a ton of money.
And, no matter what is your next hobby (composing music? VR Gaming? Heck, even snapping your cat’s time videos!) You will have a powerful platform to cover your needs!
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