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The open-source laptop maker Framework now has a gaming Desktop PC as well (www.destructoid.com)

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[–] [email protected] 40 points 3 weeks ago (35 children)

The funny thing about this new framework is that it isnt

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (14 children)

Yeah finally watched the review. Weird, but also, this is actually a really exciting chip.

If you do any kind of work with ml, this might just about be your only option for breaking 16gb vram, which is the floor for many models. Very few of us ever even get to experiment with something above 40. With these, you could take it to 128, and it seems, at a pretty price competitive standpoint.

I'm looking at it pretty seriously, because I was really excited about these chips, but almost completely disinterested in them as far as a laptop chip. But for a desktop chip? I mean if its at 128gb vram, the fuck else can I ask for?

I'm also super interested in that 2:1. For mobile computing thats pretty much my go-to these days, is a thin and light 2:1 that I just use to get access to where-ever my compute is actually happening.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (5 children)

Maximum allocation of 96GB to VRAM on the 128GB configuration, but your point still stands. This desktop was absolutely designed almost specifically for ML-enthusiasts, and if you wanna run a game on it you can too. Describing it as a "gaming PC" is totally missing the mark.

EDIT: it has been pointed out that the 96GB limit is a Windows limitation, so wouldn't affect any serious ML-enthusiast