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If you want to try it out this seems to be the best tool for doing so: https://beta.dreamstudio.ai/

I just tried it via this link. I'm not sure what I'm looking at here but the results were extremely underwhelming. I've used Dall E 2 and Midjourney extensively so I know what they're capable of. Maybe I'm missing something?

This Twitter thread has a lot of great comparisons of the models with different prompts.

https://twitter.com/fabianstelzer/status/1561019215754280963

Every model I've used initially seemed poor compared to the one I was just using. It takes time to figure out their sweet spot and what kind of prompts they excel at.

I've had a lot of great results from SD - but different great results to Dall-E.

Use it as a muse for interior design... I'm trying to find a color scheme for my apartment livingroom.

prompt: apartment living room with puffy dark brown leather couches, light gray carpet

Keep clicking generate until you see something you like. If you don't, add modifiers (elegant, sexy, masculine/feminine, style/era, etc)

Midjourney creates the most compelling images by far, so far.

I've only used it via discord, but it's much better than Midjourney and sometimes better than Dall-E. So maybe that site isn't the same thing or you need to work on your prompts.

I haven't seen anything beat midjourney for creating atmosphere.

DALL-E is great at making 'things' and generally good/great at faces.

If I’m willing to buy a computer, any pointers on what I would have to buy? I’m asking for specific models from a company like Dell, Apple, or Lenovo?

I’d rent a cloud vm with a beefy gpu from paperspace or a similar company. It’ll run about $20 per month for casual use.

Go for Google Colab Pro - about £12 per month - or Pro+ at £45 per month for A100 and V100 Gpus.

Wait for the 4070, it should be around the perf of a 3080/maybe 4090 for ~500 bucks if rumors hold up. It is coming in a few months. NZXT used to make good pre-builts. Not sure which others have a good rep. DO NOT BUY DELL.

They were saying that before the 3080 was released. It will be cheaper and better than current hardware. Then when it came out you couldn't buy it for a year.

People now go out instead of quarantine and gaming, crypto market crashing, and ETH will go to PoS soon.

GPU market conditions are different compared to the 3000 series release

What's wrong with Dell? Is Lenovo a bad option as well? Does NZXT offer on-site service?

You aren't getting on-site service with a consumer product. There are plenty of 3rd party people who can service your computer, though. It's like Lego.

Dell uses crappy proprietary tech, poor quality components, and they have an all around bad reputation.

NZXT uses good components and they make some of the best cases you can buy.

I don't know much about Lenovo's desktop products.

You might try posting on reddit.com/r/suggestapc and ask about the best service contracts and high quality system integrators.

Edit: that particular reddit looks pretty dead actually. The big one is r/buildapcsales , you can take a look at their side bar or discord and ask around.

One more thing, GamersNexus on YouTube does reviews of pre builts and they are the best at this sort of thing. Their community is likely very helpful as well.

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLsuVSmND84QuM2HKzG7ipbIbE...

The biggest issue with most pre-builts is terrible airflow making the expensive components throttle. The (Dell) Alienwares are some of the worst for this.

> You aren’t getting on-site service with a consumer product.

Both Dell and Lenovo do this.

My daughter bought an Alienware laptop for college and when the keyboard broke, they sent a technician to her dorm to fix it (and she goes to school outside of the US).

If on-site service isn’t an option, what about a Mac Pro? At least with Apple I can take the machine to a store if I need to.

Oh interesting, thanks for the knowledge.

You'll need a GPU. One with a LOT of RAM, like an RTX 3090, which has 24 GB.

According to this post, it needs 6.9 Gb. So the 3070, 3070-Ti, 3080, etc. can all run it. Sadly, my RTX 2060 is below that limit...

Apparently the model decompresses, and it won't fit very well on the 8gb models... I'm willing to give the max settings a spin on my 3070ti, but I'm not very hopeful.

It works great on my 1080 (8gb). They did an awesome job making this work on mainstream hardware.

It works on my 2070 8 gb ram.

Would a Mac Pro with a Radeon Pro W5700X with 16 GB of GDDR6 memory work?

It says that NVIDIA chips are recommended but that they are working on optimizations for AMD. This implies to me that it probably involves CUDA stuff and getting it to run on a Radeon would be potentially difficult (I am not an expert on the current state of CUDA to AMD compatibility, though).

AMD's answer to CUDA is called ROCm. I've been doing a little research on it since a few weeks ago and it seems to be funky when not outright broken. It's absolutely maddening that after all this time AMD doesn't have proper tooling on consumer GPUs.

They’re also working on M1/M2 support.

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