Stone Mason, Canadian ExPat living in the UK, Hobbyist musician.

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Cake day: July 7th, 2023

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  • Unfortunately the ones used in AI data centers aren’t useful for gaming. So yeah, probably could buy one for ⅓ the price of new, but couldn’t use it for gaming and likely still wouldn’t be able to afford it because of:

    NVIDIA H200 (Blackwell architecture) – The latest flagship (late 2023), with upgraded ~141 GB HBM3e and other Hopper improvements. It provides ~50% performance uplift over H100 in many tasks on the same power envelope. Pricing is said to be only modestly above H100. For instance, a 4-GPU H200 SXM board is listed at about $170K (versus $110K for 4×H100) ([2]) ([20]). A single H200 (NVL version) is quoted at around $31,000–32,000 ([21]). NVIDIA’s data center system NVDIMMs for H200 (DGX B200) reflect these prices, though bulk deals may apply.














  • At the very least, I absolutely won’t be buying a tablet. No corpo can force me to do that and I know a lot of people in the space will agree.

    I said exactly the same thing. Then I bought a set of standalone DJ decks from a coworker and it REQUIRES windows to run the program to analyse the tracks and load a USB. Cheapest thing I could find in spec was a Microsoft Surface Pro 5. £50 delivered. Don’t care about it being stuck on win10 because I don’t connect it to the net. It’s only job is to run that one program and some standalone synths so I can noodle on the midi keyboard and mix at the same time.

    Well… it’s also got an ebook/manga reader installed too. I load those files from a usb or SD card though.