As a very occasional gamer who uses an iMac for work I thought about getting a gaming PC for like 6 years.
Last fall it seemed that all the stars have aligned. The crypto winter and Ethereum switching to proof of stake meant that GPU prices fell to a reasonable level, I knew i would have a bit of a time to play some game during the holidays and as soon as Stable Diffusion was first posted on hacker news I knew that that's my excuse and my sign.
So far I think I have spent more time tinkering with the 20 python environments I have[0] for all the ML projects than playing RDR2.
When ever I feel like gaming I just subscribe to geforce now service. Around here it costs around ~$10 a month which I usually go go or ~$3 for a single day. And as the servers are located at a local isp no network latency or dropped packets.
That would be more cost-efficient for me as well. But I somehow like owning the hardware instead of renting it. Oh well, at least I can now locally tinker with all the diffusion and LLM projects that are being released.
Last fall it seemed that all the stars have aligned. The crypto winter and Ethereum switching to proof of stake meant that GPU prices fell to a reasonable level, I knew i would have a bit of a time to play some game during the holidays and as soon as Stable Diffusion was first posted on hacker news I knew that that's my excuse and my sign.
So far I think I have spent more time tinkering with the 20 python environments I have[0] for all the ML projects than playing RDR2.
[0] https://xkcd.com/1987/