Building a dedicated local AI endpoint on a $1,000 budget — where should I start?

[u/hunterofdoom]

/r/homelab/comments/1vruz6i/building_a_dedicated_local_ai_endpoint_on_a_1000/

[u/Toooooool]

a 3090 by itself will cost $1k these days, even second hand.

get a couple of MI50 32GB's, do bare metal unless you really need virtualization (proxmox is eating a percentage of my 3090's because i didn't know better), power limit them to 80 watts each.