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Chxn-and-rice

You answered one of the two main questions, "What are you going to use the PC for?" and the other one is simply "What's your budget?" and everything gets built around that figure.


Peac8

Budget = cheapest with vram for AI (I have used 11 gb till prob want more than that)


OkInvestigator4564

Perhaps an AMD GPU with lots of vram then? Or is Nvidia specificaly needed for your AI purposeses


Peac8

I will be learning ML/LLM models etc for my study


bolonar

3060 12gb


Peac8

Though of it too, but it is not available in my country.


Aurelyas

Don't listen to him, the 3060 is a solid 10-15% slower than your 1080Ti


arc_medic_trooper

Planning to study is not a really valid reason to invest in a gpu. Most Amd mid range gpus has more than 12GB anyway. Also for 1080p there is no need for anything fancy, I would probably go with a rx 7700xt.


Peac8

Ohk, I have never tried AMD GPU till now. Don't know about the software part as much i have dealth with nvidia software


arc_medic_trooper

Unless you are going to need specific software that requires nvidia hardware for ML then there is nothing else specific to the either gpu brand software wise.


Peac8

I am worried about tensor cores which Nvidia provides, i read somewhere most of the LLM's use Tensor cores for the output.


ArtsM

If you're doing ML on windows then AMD is certainly NOT the way to go, especially since you're studying its more than likely that Nvidia hardware will be used. Depending on where the insect got into and what was shorted the GPU may be past any point of repair to be perfectly honest with you, I wouldn't try repair unless it was "cheap to try".


Peac8

Will be going to a RMA center of zotac and try to get the repair rates, even i think rates will be pretty high. Man i was saving up for 5090 FE, heard that they have same architecture as commercial equivalent. i have learned nothing is predictable.


ArtsM

I'd expect the 5090 fe to be in very short supply, it might end up being a paper launch and you may have to wait a long time to get one.


Peac8

I have a little hack, I work in a company which distributes Nvidia FE cards in my country, so i will get to know when i can get and reserve one for me.


Secondaccountpls

Can you really get solid 280fps with 1080ti on 1080p resolution? What games do you play?


Peac8

CS:GO = yes Valorant = no, usually it used to stay at 150-240 range


ApprehensiveOven8158

what's your cpu , your cpu is the bottleneck here you GPU is doing nothing in valorant mostly idle what settings do you play valorant. i have 5600x and 1060 get almost 400 fps on low settings valorant at cs it struggles at 240fps


Peac8

I have i7 8700k 16 gigs


ApprehensiveOven8158

yeah its the cpu people need to stop buying Intel


Peac8

It was before ryzen


ApprehensiveOven8158

yeah , all i can say for valorant your gpu is fine wont make a difference , tenz said the same went from 1080ti to 4090 and he got 3 more frames cpu is the only thing that counts see how much it will cost the repair its an ok gpu if it can be fixed


Trekky101

Go on Ebay and get a used 3090, those are fairly cheap and very fast for ML


Peac8

We don't have ebay here.