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Framework’s first tiny Desktop beautifully straddles the line between cute and badass (www.theverge.com)
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Say hello to Strix Halo.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (4 children)

While a desktop with 16 CPU cores, 40 graphics cores, 80MB of cache of the 395 Plus chip, and 128GB of memory will cost $1,999 — not including bring-your-own storage and OS — you can pick one with 8 CPU cores, 32 graphics cores, 40MB of cache and 32GB of memory for $1,099. There’s also a 395 Plus with just 64GB of RAM for $1,599. Or, you can buy a mainboard alone for $799 if you provide your own mini-ITX case and power supply, too.

The high end SKU variant does not seem cost efficient considering you have to bring your own SSDs and you will need large ones since there is no SATA for HDDs.

The lower end SKU seems decent enough if you're fine with moving over to an iGPU for graphics (a realistic option with Strix Halo).

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago (3 children)

HDDs? Srsly? Besides, throwing a 4TB NVM in there should be enough for most, shouldn't it? Or are games more demanding these days? At worst over could use an external drive but that's not ideal. Anyway, for that money I can build a very decent PC myself.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

It even has a second NVMe slot for another SSD. And what you can't build fir that price is a PC with 110 GB VRAM (96 GB when using Windows). This thing is a thinly disguised AI workstation for running large models locally. It's significantly cheaper than all alternatives.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Not disguised at all, running locally and even clustering multiple machines for ai was a major point in the presentation

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

SLI / Crossfire for AI by Framework was surely not on my bingo card