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I've been curious about this too. AWS does have K80 instances available for $0.90/hour which isn't too bad for playing around and as long as they keep updating their infrastructure, you can play with the newest stuff versus having to upgrade your own all the time.

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That doesn't sound that bad. I might investigate AWS until putting an investment into my own dedicated hardware.

I'm just starting off, so my primary concern is speed of iteration and learning. I want to train on and generate audio phonemes, so this will undoubtably take a lot of practice.

If you also play video games, then just get one of the new Nvidia Pascal chips and install it in your home PC. Dual-boot Windows / Linux. Which card to get? Bigger is better but it also depends on your wallet.

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