• sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      19 hours ago

      There… is only a single, mainline, broadly available RTX GPU with 32gb VRAM.

      It’s the 5090 RTX.

      Which came out in January of 2025.

      At an MSRP of $2,000.

      With many partner models considerably exceeding that, up to as high as $5,000.

      Not only is the pricing ludicrous, the timing is not possible.

      The only thing in 2024 or prior I can find with 32 gb vram is basically an unofficial mod or variant called the RTX 4090 D, that never left China, or, maybe it would be something like about as hard to find as a GRE variant AMD card in the US.

      I guess unless this person’s uncle works at Nintendo Nvidia, or something.

      Outside of that, we’re talking workstation/server type GPUs, generally with even more ludicrous pricing.

      This person is either very confused or very bad at lying.

      Also wtf does ‘maxed out the system ram’ even mean?

      You can get 128gb of sys ram into… most middle to higher tier mobos with 4 dimm slots. Many higher tier pc mobos can do 256gb.

      ???

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        20 hours ago

        That’s honestly the only explanation for that build at just 1.5k. More likely they’re just a stinking liar 😅

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          With the specs they’ve claimed and that price, they either got much of it for free or are… yeah, straight-up lying. That price will get the case, mobo, CPU, RAM, PSU, and storage, probably. Maybe not even that much, if it’s all high-end stuff, before prices inflated. GPU and high-end monitor? Nah.

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            14 hours ago

            A high end monitor alone cost third the 2k budget. (Edit: edited, Edit 2: edited part 2)

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            19 hours ago

            I can currently just barely figure out how to do a 9070 (non XT), 24gb DDR5, 1TB SSD via an AOOStar Gem 12 (soldered on 8745hs, iirc) total setup for the rig, at just a bit above $1500 before tax.

            Without a monitor, of course.

            That’s like the absolute most bang i can figure how to squeeze out of the least bucks, and its a non tradtional setup that works via a dock/cradle and Oculink (cost of that is included).

            Doing the same specs in a traditional PC just ends up being more expensive, though its debatable as to whether the approximately 10% to 15% max performance hit on the GPU that OcuLink incurs in highly demanding scenarios makes that 100% true.

            So yeah, this… this person is like, hilariously out of the realm of reality.