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qwen3.6 27B q5, llama.cpp, RTX 3090, pi, cost: electricity bill
by qiine 2mo ago
qwen3.6 27B q5,
llama.cpp,
RTX 3090,
pi,
cost: electricity bill
- amazingamazing 2mo agoRex 3090 isn’t free. Even if you already owned it, it wasn’t free. That’s years of a $20 subscription
- broodbucket 2mo agoIt's an asset, though, and bizarrely it's one that's been appreciating the past 5 years
- johnvanommen 2mo agoI took the same attitude. The hardware isn’t getting cheaper, it’s getting more expensive. As I see it, an investment in AI hardware is an investment in my own future. IE, I drive my car a couple of days a week, and it’s perfectly normal to spend $500 a month on an asset like that. When you factor in the SPACE it takes up, that’s the REAL cost of owning a car: the real estate you have to buy for your car to occupy. Once that’s factored in, the “true” cost of having a car can easily be $2000 a month, even for a crummy car. The space that the car occupies is expensive. Yet people balk at spending even $2000 on a GPU. Makes no sense to me. I choose to invest in the future.
- qiine 2mo agoI see your point but we could go pretty far with this logic. motherboard ? cpu? ram!!! screen? fancy keyboard? etc..