Need more grunt for machine learning

JamV

Member
Changing the motherboard for a Asus TUF X570 & including Windows (assuming I can't recycle the licence) brings the price to £1518. Its not impossible but its more than I was looking to spend.

My original spec replacing the RTX 2060S with a GTX 1660 comes in at £1047.
 

Scott

Behold The Ford Mondeo
Moderator
Changing the motherboard for a Asus TUF X570 & including Windows (assuming I can't recycle the licence) brings the price to £1518. Its not impossible but its more than I was looking to spend.

My original spec replacing the RTX 2060S with a GTX 1660 comes in at £1047.

Everything comes at a cost unfortunately. What you don't want to do is compromise the build with poor foundation choices. It;s all very well shoehorning in a whacking great CPU and GPU into lesser comparing parts, exactly what big brands do, but it doesn't help the longevity of the system, especially when it comes to future potential.

You can suggest the components you absolutely want in the build with the lowest possible supporting accompaniments and we can tell you what will work... it's just not what we will recommend for the reasons outlined above. It's always best to spend wisely now so that in a year or 2, when it's time to upgrade, it's down to a GPU or something else rather than a whole system.
 

debiruman665

Enthusiast
Yeah, the RTX because of their tensor cores give a significant increase in hardware accellerated applications.
I can't find the exact page anymore but they have a rating of 7.5 (maybe 75) whatevers? and they are comparable to quadro cards.

I installed the cuda drivers for pytorch but never ever got around to using it.
 

Tony1044

Prolific Poster
You've got to chuckle at that graph when you consider the Firecuda at 5x the speed of the fastest RAID 0 in that graph.

A PCIe4.0 system with a couple of M2 Firecudas on there is highly unlikely to benefit from any RAID 0 configuration at all. I just can't imagine a PCIe bridge making any odds over what the motherboard has on-board anyway.

I would love to see some graphs on it, especially with actual real world usage instead of benchmarking.

The graph was only intended to show an illustration of RAID 0 vs non-RAID 0, to highlight
debiruman665's point. Nothing else. It wasn't a critique on one type of device or bus over another.
 

Scott

Behold The Ford Mondeo
Moderator
The graph was only intended to show an illustration of RAID 0 vs non-RAID 0, to highlight
debiruman665's point. Nothing else. It wasn't a critique on one type of device or bus over another.

I'm not sure why you seem to be taking what I wrote personally? I was only pointing out how far things have came and just how insane the M2 drives are, I wasn't criticising your post.
 

JamV

Member
Hi,
I found a bit more budget & was looking at some of the review machines that looked interesting (like the Inferno). My use case is home development & machine learning. Any comments much appreciated.

Case
LIAN LI LANCOOL II GAMING CASE
Processor (CPU)
AMD Ryzen 7 3800X Eight Core CPU (3.9GHz-4.5GHz/36MB CACHE/AM4)
Motherboard
ASUS® TUF X570-PLUS GAMING (USB 3.2 Gen 2, PCIe 4.0, CrossFireX) - RGB Ready!
Memory (RAM)
32GB Corsair VENGEANCE RGB PRO DDR4 3200MHz (2 x 16GB)
Graphics Card
8GB NVIDIA GEFORCE RTX 2060 SUPER - HDMI, DP - VR Ready!
1st Storage Drive
1TB SEAGATE BARRACUDA SATA-III 3.5" HDD, 6GB/s, 7200RPM, 64MB CACHE
1st M.2 SSD Drive
500GB SAMSUNG 970 EVO PLUS M.2, PCIe NVMe (up to 3500MB/R, 3200MB/W)
Power Supply
CORSAIR 550W CV SERIES™ CV-550 POWER SUPPLY
Power Cable
1 x 1 Metre UK Power Cable (Kettle Lead)
Processor Cooling
PCS FrostFlow 240 Series RGB High Performance Liquid Cooler
Thermal Paste
STANDARD THERMAL PASTE FOR SUFFICIENT COOLING
LED Lighting
50cm RGB LED Strip
Sound Card
ONBOARD 6 CHANNEL (5.1) HIGH DEF AUDIO (AS STANDARD)
Wireless/Wired Networking
WIRELESS INTEL® Wi-Fi 6 AX200 2,400Mbps/5GHz, 300Mbps/2.4GHz PCI-E CARD + BT 5.0
USB/Thunderbolt Options
MIN. 2 x USB 3.0 & 2 x USB 2.0 PORTS @ BACK PANEL + MIN. 2 FRONT PORTS
Operating System
Windows 10 Home 64 Bit - inc. Single Licence [KUK-00001]
Operating System Language
United Kingdom - English Language
Windows Recovery Media
Windows 10 Multi-Language Recovery Image - Unlimited Downloads from Online Account
Office Software
FREE 30 Day Trial of Microsoft 365® (Operating System Required)
Anti-Virus
NO ANTI-VIRUS SOFTWARE
Browser
Firefox™
Warranty
3 Year Silver Warranty (1 Year Collect & Return, 1 Year Parts, 3 Year Labour)
Delivery
STANDARD INSURED DELIVERY TO UK MAINLAND (MON-FRI)
Build Time
Standard Build - Approximately 15 to 18 working days
Price: £1621.00 including VAT and Delivery
Unique URL to re-configure: https://www.pcspecialist.co.uk/saved-configurations/amd-am4-gen3-pc/vsWPgGqXUG/
 

Scott

Behold The Ford Mondeo
Moderator
L2 Inferno would be a better fit for those uses. I would just call up and ask if you can bump the RAM up to 32GB.
 
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