How are y’all stomaching the “AI Boom” prices?

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A surge in local LLM enthusiasts is hitting a hard hardware wall as consumer GPU prices remain inflated by the enterprise AI boom. Users are struggling to find a sweet spot between affordable 16GB cards with narrow memory buses and prohibitively expensive high-VRAM workstation gear. The community is currently weighing the trade-offs of experimental Intel Arc support against the 'NVIDIA tax' required for decent inference speeds.