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I regret building this $3000 Pi AI cluster

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468 points speckx | 2 comments | 19 Sep 25 14:28 UTC | HN request time: 0.403s | source
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fidotron ◴[19 Sep 25 14:44 UTC] No.45302232[source]▶
If Pi Clusters were actually cost competitive for performance there would be data centres full of them.
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phoronixrly ◴[19 Sep 25 14:47 UTC] No.45302265[source]▶
If they were cost competitive for ... anything at all really...
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1. magicalhippo ◴[19 Sep 25 18:55 UTC] No.45305113[source]▶
I picked up several Rpi 4 2GB for $20 each just before covid-19. At that price point they've been quite competitive for small homelab workloads.

The current RPi 5 makes no sense to me in any configuration, given its pricing.

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2. mayli ◴[19 Sep 25 19:41 UTC] No.45305617[source]▶
Yeah, it's only competitive as a toy for under $35, anything beyond that you can get a cheap x86 with much better performance, a much compatible architecture and much more IOs.