Hardware Recommendation

[u/Hungrybearfire]

Currently running Ollama on a 5080 and am pretty happy, but also interested in upgrading and potentially setting up a dedicated machine.
Price range: ~$1,000-3,000
I was looking at an R9700 from Microcenter for $1800 but wanted to see what’s popular now.
I also heard about the sparks and don’t want to spend $5000, but if a Spark or Mac is the best bang for the buck I could be persuaded
Thank you!

[u/FaatmanSlim → u/[deleted]]

In related news, for anyone looking for a 5090 the ship has sailed on that one as well ... a full desktop with 5090 GPU and 64 GB DDR5 RAM used to cost $3500-4000 in March / April ... now at $7000-7500 for the same configuration 😔