AI machine?

[Noctosphere]

Hello everyone,

I'm gonna change my GPU for my PC soon (going to upgrade it for something better)
However, my current GPU is still good shape (not for today's video game but still. It's a RTX 3060ti 8GB)
I'm also learning AI stuff and I'm thinking of learning more about all that and probably going to school or get a job in that field.
I was wondering if getting/building another machine with my old GPU would be a good investment if I go down that path.
I could do stuff on my main PC (video game, learning or whatever) while my secondary machine would do other AI stuff (laerning, generating, etc.) without saturating my main PC's ressources.

If it is a good investment, what do you think I should look for? A mini PC? A full grown ATX tower PC? Or are there some pre-built hardware that would better fit my needs?
Apparently, the most important part for AI-learning is a good GPU. Do you think my RTX 3060ti 8GB would be good enough? Also, do I need a good CPU for that? Or any regular CPU would do the job?

I'm looking forward for your answers.
Thanks

 

[Magsor]

Well. I think you deserve the best of the best. So if I were you I would get a brand new setup of the latest core 9 or Ryzen 9950x3dai and use the 3060ti and then later on, get a RTX 6090 with 32 gig vram. You will have the other computer and it still has a very capable iGPU. to start working on AI or anything else really good CPU.

It all depends on each AI models. There is a chinese one that can run on a potato PC and there is a video out there on youtube where the guy runs it on five m4 mac mini.

 

[Noctosphere]

Well. I think you deserve the best of the best. So if I were you I would get a brand new setup of the latest core 9 or Ryzen 9950x3dai and use the 3060ti and then later on, get a RTX 6090 with 32 gig vram. You will have the other computer and it still has a very capable iGPU. to start working on AI or anything else really good CPU.

It all depends on each AI models. There is a chinese one that can run on a potato PC and there is a video out there on youtube where the guy runs it on five m4 mac mini.

You think I deserve the best? Awww thank you
Sadly, my wallet thinks you are wrong
Hence why I asked what I should get. For example, AI generated images or AI generated video. If I want to get into that, do I need a powerful CPU? Or a powerful GPU would be enough? And if so, is my RTX 3060 ti would be enough if I run it on, let's say, a 6th gen intel CPU?
Also, If I only want to do AI learning stuff on that machine, would it be better to have multiple GPU? If so, then should future proof that machine so that it can house multiple GPU? If so, where should I look?

Thanks again