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You can buy a pre-built gaming PC with a Nvidia 3080 today and have it delivered by the end of the week. The shortage exists exclusively on the retail side, OEMs are awash with both graphics cards and CPUs.

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This is not true. Every major prebuilt company has significant delays on 3080s and 3090s. I just checked.

ibuypower: 6 weeks

nzxt: 4 weeks

originpc: 4 weeks

maingear: 12 weeks

alienware: 5 weeks

I think you forgot to check the actual majors Dell, HP/Omen, and Lenovo/Legion but maybe they're just as bad.

Alienware = dell for the top end stuff like 3090s.

And to that end: https://i.imgur.com/oXgofp7.png

I just went this route to build a ML workstation. I was able to get a prebuilt with a 3090 for ~30% of a comparable build on https://lambdalabs.com/.

Now I just need to wait until next year to get the second 3090. I considered waiting for the new A4000s to launch to see if they'd have better inventory but figured 3090s have additional value as a gaming gpu.

I'd be curious how professional ML folks are fairing and what they're using -- it's not too late to cancel my build.

AWS GPU compute is pretty cheap if you don't need their newest beefiest rigs.

I've prototype on a collab notebook and have been using AWS GPUs for training. Having to jump through hoops for quota and the general anxiety in trying to optimize the costs led me to just build a machine with a 1-time upfront cost. As a sole proprietor, I can write off the capex against future revenue anyways and depreciate it.

Just got this delivered yesterday:

https://www.novatech.co.uk/savedbuild/ccf0fcec-685d-4f4b-8be...

New to ML but looks similar enough to some of the builds on your site that I’m slightly less scared that I made the wrong choice!

Dope, 7 days is a pretty nice turnaround. I went with a 'custom' prebuilt so I could plan for adding additional cards once they're well supplied. You might run into trouble with the PSU, case clearance and mobo throughput if you plan on adding another 3-slot 3090 - those are all sub-1k though so you can always swap once you need to!

Alienware's published lead time should be taken with a large grain of salt. My 3090RTX / Ryzen 5600X build just shipped 12 days after I ordered it, a full 3 weeks faster than the estimate I was given at the time that I ordered it.

We just bought 20 Dell Prevision workstations with 3080’s in them and they were delivered fine with no question about availability for more.

(In Sweden)

Sure, but now you are stuck with un-upgradeable FCLGA3647 systems.

That’s what I did, a lot of the smaller pre-build retailers are out of stock but HP/Dell/etc. still have the high end cards in reasonably priced builds.

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