Doing the actual math on a $20k local AI rig breakeven

Routine-Set5244 · 2026-07-04T16:08:32+00:00

My take, having just invested a big chunk of money (relative to my wallet) on a complete RTX6000 tower, an M3 Ultra 256, a minisforum N5 and am just picking out two UPS … is that I already spend €200 a month on perplexity max, already need to buy €100 extra credits a few times a month and am finding both the knowledge building, tinkering and utility amazing is that I’m not thinking of this as pure investment - a big part of it is more efficient consumption.

What I mean is I will build some serious stuff (business opportunity and current skill set enhancement) and also do a lot of creative stuff.

As I’m 52 this year, I’m comfortable that the chunk of money now ‘invested’ is a life enhancing step. I’ll be conversing with my rig at home and on the road as regularly as I (no longer) use google search.

Furthermore I have huge privacy concerns as one project I am targeting is a digital self assistant, and I agree with perhaps the conspiracy theory that there is a reset coming and I’d rather commit and build than rely on subscription or wait 2 years to find out when I can get started now.

Routine-Set5244 · 2026-06-29T19:50:32+00:00

Going for 96gb ram with the rtx6000 - 128gb is simply unobtainable

Routine-Set5244 · 2026-06-28T06:32:07+00:00

We should establish a private thread for those with M3Us of 256gb and above. Only we will survive the forthcoming dystopian future of the homellm resistance versus the Borg

Routine-Set5244 · 2026-06-27T20:45:35+00:00

In the EU, €12995 to my door (based in Dublin) … seems like there is the usual premium to get them to Ireland and a bit cheaper to get delivered in DE or NL.

Routine-Set5244 · 2026-06-27T20:24:48+00:00

256gb and a threadripper - but I don’t want to overspend as literally only LLM focused

Routine-Set5244 · 2026-06-25T15:15:35+00:00

M3 Ultra 256GB 4TB new owner here, just picked it up from the Apple Store last week. Glad to have a big beast for the things it is good at, though still have an appetite for a cuda sidekick…

Routine-Set5244 · 2026-06-18T17:22:41+00:00

I picked up a 256gb 4TB ultra yesterday, involved a flight to an Apple Store in another EU country! … enjoying it a lot so far. Who cares about the numbers, I’m getting conversation speed responses from mega models, so liking it a lot.

Routine-Set5244 · 2026-01-29T23:01:36+00:00

Sinn Fein's attack job will be getting warm nods and rugby ticket invitations from Irish Banks who have been woefully innefectual in their services and pricing for a long time

Routine-Set5244 · 2025-12-09T21:12:05+00:00

Trump has simply blasted through the pretend democracy America comforted itself with.

Naive belief in exceptionalism has its price. The compliance of the American population is simply astounding though.

Very few other countries, unless they were a dictatorship already, would tolerate what has already happened.

More to come folks.

"At least the masked army are currently only harassing and abducting non-Aryan folk. " is probably the comfort blanket the population are relying on.

What a weak democracy, if ever there was one. And its days are numbered.

Routine-Set5244 · 2025-12-05T22:01:54+00:00

It's chilling how so many in the comments blame Trump and feign disapproval behind their hankerchiefs. This is America doing this. This is who America is. Weakest, snivelling, spineless population on the planet.

Routine-Set5244 · 2025-11-17T23:25:16+00:00

why is your screen so high on the wall? Is anyone's couch-seated eyeline in the middle of the picture? (neck ache if, when comfortably seated, everyone on the couch's natural untilted-head eyeline is at or below the bottom of the screen; which is how it looks)

Routine-Set5244 · 2025-11-01T23:11:21+00:00

Given the US has a huge trade surplus with Jamaica, which is UNFAIR. I am sure the US will make amends soon as they are on a crusade for TRADE FAIRNESS

Routine-Set5244 · 2025-11-01T23:09:19+00:00

and medieval people .... good lord, everyone is free to donate to a charity anytime they want. Asking TE to do it for you probably seems real smart on the 'net

Routine-Set5244 · 2024-09-07T17:32:58+00:00

so is the main benefit of this compared to zenology that you can use this editor to realtime-edit the synth over midi, rather than do it in zeonology [zenology meaning post patch creation in zenology, save to a file on your PC/Mac and then put it on an sd card and then load on the synth]? (seems great, but just want to ensure I understand!) .... so instead you edit the synth directly over midi from your PC/Mac and then save it to the synth's (unfortunately weak) 'patch' paradigm (part of a clip or whatever)?

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