outloaf wrote:I wonder what about a GTX1650 makes it faster than an rtx 3080ti... Your think I'd be getting the faster training times.
I'm chalking it up to "idiots luck" in my case. Who knows really. Maybe the chipset on those
Optiplex motherboards jibes well with TONEX or something.
Those Dell Optiplex machines are very commonly used to to "build" Budget gaming machines
as you can generally buy a refurb off of Amazon for about $250.00 or so with an i7 and 32 gigs of ram. Buy a power supply for it that can supply power to a newer 8 pin hookup on most fast-ish video cards and an $8.00 Power supply to motherboard adapter (The Dell motherboards have a proprietary power socket that is 8-pin instead of the commonly used 24 pin molex sockets.
This turns $5-600.00 into a pretty darned powerful computer. They are so inexpensive to put together that I purchased three of them. Did an identical "build to the second one (I have a "guitar room studio" in my house and a "full band capable" studio in my cottage on the property. This way I can easily use either "room" based on what I'm doing. The third is the "living room computer without the power supply or the Video card upgrade as it's not needed as a music powerhouse but for office type work.
I don't think these computers are capable of supporting Windows-11 so if that's an issue to you it is not an option. I'm not even sure if there will ever be driver upgrades either that support win-11. I use Win-10 Pro.