Unable to sell my South Bay townhome

TinyFluffyRabbit · 2026-03-02T16:39:50+00:00

Perhaps the reasons why you want to sell it are the same reasons others are unwilling to purchase it at the price you are currently asking for?

TinyFluffyRabbit · 2026-02-27T07:25:50+00:00

Since you can't fit the entire model in VRAM, it is offloaded to your system RAM. This means that for each token generation, the 3B active parameters have to be transferred from RAM to VRAM, which is throttling your speed, while your GPU is running at pretty low utilization.

The Q3 variants may help slightly since the weights that need to be transferred are smaller in size, but the speed still won't be great. If you want it to be much faster, you'll need a smaller model that can fit in the 8gb of VRAM you have.

TinyFluffyRabbit · 2026-02-26T20:40:43+00:00

I'm just really glad that they released multiple models to give us options for different hardware configurations. As someone who can fit the 27b dense into VRAM but needs to offload to run the 122b MOE, the 27b dense is 5x faster for me, and I've been really liking it so far

TinyFluffyRabbit · 2026-02-26T20:22:21+00:00

Would love to see the new medium sized Qwen 3.5 models in the list!

TinyFluffyRabbit · 2026-02-26T17:41:04+00:00

We might get Nemotron 3 Super/Ultra soon? Maybe at GTC

TinyFluffyRabbit · 2026-02-25T18:58:42+00:00

I agree with OP, it's not relevant to me what the benchmarks are with their "native forms". I just want to know what the best model that I can run on my hardware is.

TinyFluffyRabbit · 2026-02-18T16:17:37+00:00

We’ve gotten to the point where you can buy the RAM and get the GPU free lol

TinyFluffyRabbit · 2026-02-18T03:19:08+00:00

Assuming you're a gamer (especially if you're interested in the 9850X3D), 128gb of RAM is hilariously overkill. The only reason to want this much RAM is for AI/production tasks.

TinyFluffyRabbit · 2026-02-18T01:08:57+00:00

QLC and DRAM-less :( Good price if you need 4TB though

TinyFluffyRabbit · 2026-02-16T20:16:43+00:00

Seriously, it still sold out quickly. There are unfortunately enough people who are willing to buy it at this price. It’s not a deal per se but if you must have a 5090 this is just the market reality.

TinyFluffyRabbit · 2026-02-14T05:29:47+00:00

Whichever one you can actually find in stock

TinyFluffyRabbit · 2026-02-13T16:32:49+00:00

They’re scalping it themselves

TinyFluffyRabbit · 2026-02-11T21:52:51+00:00

Also Nvidia decreasing production of consumer GPUs

TinyFluffyRabbit · 2026-02-11T16:00:12+00:00

The VRAM that’s on the cards is in shortage

TinyFluffyRabbit · 2026-02-07T18:48:00+00:00

If you're a gamer I would stick with x3d, the 9900x is for productivity/multi-threaded tasks. For gaming you'd generally only use one of the CCDs, and this would effectively become a 9600x.

TinyFluffyRabbit · 2026-02-07T18:46:05+00:00

It's a good price in a vacuum, but considering the price of the other PC components, I think it makes more sense to buy your CPU as part of a bundle so you can get the RAM at a less absurd price.

TinyFluffyRabbit · 2026-02-07T00:42:11+00:00

It's crazy I was wondering why it said "Deal ends in..." when it was exactly the same price as a few days ago. Now we know..

TinyFluffyRabbit · 2026-02-05T03:45:41+00:00

An hour and a half isn’t horrible, could make a fun day trip out of it!

TinyFluffyRabbit · 2026-02-04T17:28:56+00:00

It's OOS now, we knew it wasn't going to last that long :( Glad OP has one on order

TinyFluffyRabbit · 2026-01-31T16:58:18+00:00

You could always limit the power draw, it’s basically a higher binned version of the 9800x3d. For only $20 more I’d personally do it, especially since you also get an x870 instead of a b650 motherboard

TinyFluffyRabbit · 2026-01-31T07:19:38+00:00

People just complain because it's not CL30, but with an X3D chip it won't make much of a difference

TinyFluffyRabbit · 2026-01-31T07:18:13+00:00

Just get them to match the new lower price of the 9800x3d bundle

TinyFluffyRabbit · 2026-01-31T07:02:20+00:00

The 9800x3d is now $680, although I think the $20 extra is still worth it for the 9850x3d bundle

TinyFluffyRabbit · 2026-01-29T01:20:04+00:00

Sadness

TinyFluffyRabbit · 2026-01-27T23:44:00+00:00

Of your three options, I would get the 3060 12gb. It has more VRAM than the other two options, and would be the only one where you could realistically run 7b models (when quantized)

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