Even if you gave them specs so insane no game could possibly challenge them, 15 absolute max top-end ridiculous overkill gaming PCs is still less than $100k. (My estimate number for “a gaming PC so expensive you would have no reason to ever build it” is $5k btw) He would have to buy 100,000 of those hypothetical overkill PCs to match the cost of this yacht. So… 15 PCs is by far the most reasonable part of the headline.
Actually 15 PCs can make for a sick LAN party so it’s not like they’re just there to burn money, like a yacht is
(My estimate number for “a gaming PC so expensive you would have no reason to ever build it” is $5k btw)
I looked at builds for NVidia’s current “design your dream build with a budget of $5k” contest, and it doesn’t go nearly as far as you’d think now. RAM prices are absurd beyond measure now, to say nothing of how GPUs have gone. Like it breaks down to $2.5k for a 5090 and around $1k for 128GB of RAM. If you just slapped down the best consumer CPU (~$600-700) and GPU (~$2500-3000), maxed out the RAM ($1,500-2000), included a nice monitor ($500-1000), and didn’t bother cutting corners on the rest (which broadly end up in the range of $100-200 each, plus or minus some) you’d probably hit $7k with how fucked PC parts are right now.
So pretty close to your guess, since the big fluctuation is fairly recent.
Threadrippers are fucking hilariously priced, like £3k+ for the slower versions of the latest generation, and even then there are definitely benefits in a few games/programs that a “typical consumer” would use. Those are retail prices btw they get way more costly for the enterprise-grade chips AFAIK.
Linus Torvalds uses Apple Silicon Macs nowadays but in 2020 he had a $3500 PC and that’s without a GPU on top.
Even if you gave them specs so insane no game could possibly challenge them, 15 absolute max top-end ridiculous overkill gaming PCs is still less than $100k. (My estimate number for “a gaming PC so expensive you would have no reason to ever build it” is $5k btw) He would have to buy 100,000 of those hypothetical overkill PCs to match the cost of this yacht. So… 15 PCs is by far the most reasonable part of the headline.
Actually 15 PCs can make for a sick LAN party so it’s not like they’re just there to burn money, like a yacht is
I looked at builds for NVidia’s current “design your dream build with a budget of $5k” contest, and it doesn’t go nearly as far as you’d think now. RAM prices are absurd beyond measure now, to say nothing of how GPUs have gone. Like it breaks down to $2.5k for a 5090 and around $1k for 128GB of RAM. If you just slapped down the best consumer CPU (~$600-700) and GPU (~$2500-3000), maxed out the RAM ($1,500-2000), included a nice monitor ($500-1000), and didn’t bother cutting corners on the rest (which broadly end up in the range of $100-200 each, plus or minus some) you’d probably hit $7k with how fucked PC parts are right now.
So pretty close to your guess, since the big fluctuation is fairly recent.
I love AI farms and I guess also crypto farms
I think this is 100% AI, the amount of hardware involved makes crypto look minor.
ha ha ha
I remember when PC gaming was straight up cheap. Then crypto bullshit happened, and now AI bullshit is piling straight on top of it
Threadrippers are fucking hilariously priced, like £3k+ for the slower versions of the latest generation, and even then there are definitely benefits in a few games/programs that a “typical consumer” would use. Those are retail prices btw they get way more costly for the enterprise-grade chips AFAIK.
Linus Torvalds uses Apple Silicon Macs nowadays but in 2020 he had a $3500 PC and that’s without a GPU on top.
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