![]() ![]() Not being a GPU expert, I found the terminology incredibly confusing, but here’s a very basic primer on selecting one. For pretty much all machine learning applications, you want an NVIDIA card because only NVIDIA makes the essential CUDA framework and the CuDNN library that all of the machine learning frameworks, including TensorFlow, rely on. Which graphics card is the most important and the toughest question. If you wanted to use your computer for heavy file transfer workloads or just wanted to make sure that it’s clearly faster than your friend’s Macbook for all applications, I would get a solid state drive like the Samsung 850 EVO 250GB 2.5-Inch SATA III Internal SSD, which is 250Gb for $98.Īll these drives make you realize what a rip off it is when Apple charges you $200 more for an extra 250Gb in your Macbook Pro. A solid state drive would be faster, but much more expensive, and, typically, my deep learning programs have not been disk I/O bound, since they generally load batches of data into RAM and then crunch on them for a long time. I also can’t believe how cheap hard drives have gotten. On the other hand, maybe it’s best to protect yourself from yourself and take the option off the table. ![]() Probably fewer regrets if you go with the overclockable chip. So who knows? Building a computer can change your outlook on life. I do have to admit that as I started getting into the idea of building my own machine, I started to regret the decision. I didn’t spend the extra $20 for the I5-6600K, which is the same exact chip but overclockable because the whole notion of sacrificing reliability for a 10% speed increase seemed insane to me. Pretty much any CPU you can find on Amazon will work fine. ![]() But I couldn’t bring myself to build a whole computer with a CPU three generations old. I looked at speed comparison CPU tests online, and I think I would have been fine with a slower CPU, as very few things I do are CPU-limited (except training neural nets and I’m going to use the GPU for that). I spent the extra $5 because of the Amazon review that stated, “For those who just cannot get enough LEDs crammed into their system, these are the perfect choice.” If you build a computer in your basement and you don’t embrace your inner Burning Man/teenager aesthetic, you are going to have a really hard time finding components. I bought two 8GB of Corsair Vengeance for $129. I can’t believe how cheap RAM has gotten! You need to buy DDR4 RAM to match the motherboard (that’s most of what you will find online) and the prices are all about the same. I bought a Thermaltake Core V1 Mini ITX Cube on Amazon for $50. The size should match the motherboard, so it needs to have mini-ITX in the name. CaseĬases don’t matter much, but they’re pretty cheap, and since this market for DIY computers is dominated by gamers, they come in all kinds of fun shapes and colors. It comes with a WiFi antenna, which is actually super useful in my basement. Deep dreamer mac running out of memory pro#My minimum requirements were a PCIe slot to plug the GPU into and two DDR4 slots to plug RAM into, and the board I went with was an ASUS Mini ITX DDR B150I PRO GAMING/WIFI/AURA Motherboard for $125 on Amazon. Since I didn’t want to use multiple GPUs, the cheapest and smallest standard size is called mini-ITX, which will be fine for this sort of project. Here’s what you need to buy and some specific recommendations: Motherboard I hadn’t built a computer since the ’80s, and I was pretty intimidated by dropping hundreds of dollars on something I might not be able to build (and might not really use), but I’m here to tell you it can be done! Also, it’s really fun, and you will end up with a great general-purpose computer that will generally do inference and learning 20 times faster than your laptop. Deep dreamer mac running out of memory trial#Get a free trial today and find answers on the fly, or master something new and useful. Join the O'Reilly online learning platform. ![]()
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