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Re: Video to video with Stable Diffusion

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Post by _kulang »

faitswulff wrote: post #63
davidy123 wrote: post #62

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is why I like the "open case design." Your "PC" is just a frame to hang components on, with nothing to enclose it. And the nice thing is these days people care a lot about quiet computers, so you can have an open frame case with three GPUs that is just making a not-unpleasant whooshing sound at full bore.

This exposes the components to more dust and potentially static shocks as a result. Cases are also designed to encourage airflow over specific components, so being case-free might not result in improved thermals. But it is certainly more convenient for tweaking your build.

I highly doubt open air is going to drastically reduce component life. I don’t see how open air is anywhere near as bad as some of the negative pressure and unfiltered builds typical of OEMs for dust build up. I don’t even think dust causes “static shocks” in computers, it only clogs ventilation leading to overheating primarily.

Open air certainly is a choice and cases do function to better guide airflow when designed and built in correctly

Re: Video to video with Stable Diffusion

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Post by swayvil »

davidy123 wrote: post #62
hospitalJail wrote: post #36

I was going to get a 4090 this year, but I just don't think 24gb VRAM is going to bee enough in the short term future(for AI related stuff). Ended up getting a 3060 for 1/4 of the cost, and I'm planning on using/paying for Colab until some 6090 comes out with 128gb vram. Something that kind of bothers me that I don't understand. Why is there such an obsession about having small computers/servers? I don't care if I ha…

This is why I like the "open case design." Your "PC" is just a frame to hang components on, with nothing to enclose it. And the nice thing is these days people care a lot about quiet computers, so you can have an open frame case with three GPUs that is just making a not-unpleasant whooshing sound at full bore.

It reminds me of those scifi villains with exposed brain sticking out the top of their head. You'd think it would be terribly vulnerable, and it is, but the cooling and dust-managenent advantages makes it worth it.

Re: Video to video with Stable Diffusion

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Post by ajani »

j_not_j wrote: post #53
dist-epoch wrote: post #44

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Most of the cost is in CPU/GPU/RAM.

Ahh, most of the cost is RAM. Then GPU then CPU. Look at a Dell or HP server configurator website to see why. If you "only" need GPU, a craigslist search should find a less expensive 2 or 3yo server to plug your latest GPU into.

Ahh, most of the cost is CPU. It’s so expensive to have register memory, that you have l1 l2 caches. Each further away and cheaper. RAM is the cheapest which is why you can have so much of it. Try having 16G of register memory. UMA is a step towards that, but not quite.

Re: Video to video with Stable Diffusion

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Post by SirMaster »

bondarchuk wrote: post #35
rpastuszak wrote: post #31

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The light reflection on the shoulder doesn't make much sense. I think this is less pronounced when soft light is involved. I wonder if sharp light and reflections will take longer to be handled properly. Every frame on the shoulder looks ok on its own, but when animated it feels like it was taken in a different environment than the rest. I suspect depth maps (SD2 already supports them) could be used to achieve that i…

> The light reflection on the shoulder doesn't make much sense. People will really grasp at anything to find something to critique in generative AI, huh?

Wait, should we not critique?

OK i'll fix that.

It's perfect. Stop all work and development on it now guys, it's perfect. It has no flaws and makes no mistakes. Amazing I guess.

Re: Video to video with Stable Diffusion

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Post by faitswulff »

_kulang wrote: post #71
faitswulff wrote: post #63

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This exposes the components to more dust and potentially static shocks as a result. Cases are also designed to encourage airflow over specific components, so being case-free might not result in improved thermals. But it is certainly more convenient for tweaking your build.

I highly doubt open air is going to drastically reduce component life. I don’t see how open air is anywhere near as bad as some of the negative pressure and unfiltered builds typical of OEMs for dust build up. I don’t even think dust causes “static shocks” in computers, it only clogs ventilation leading to overheating primarily. Open air certainly is a choice and cases do function to better guide airflow when designe…

I doubt it as well - for the most part - but if you're buying high end parts, I think it's hard to argue that it doesn't expose (literally) the components to more risk.

My understanding of the association between dust and static shocks are that the friction between dust particles necessarily creates static charges.

Re: Video to video with Stable Diffusion

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Post by horsawlarway »

padolsey wrote: post #16

Once the temporal fixes are applied, the residual morphing and flickering actually quite appeals to me. Reminds me of the animation style in A Scanner Darkly.

A Scanner Darkly was also immediately where my mind went.

I enjoy the style, but I'm also not sure it's the right medium for most works.

Re: Video to video with Stable Diffusion

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Post by rpastuszak »

SirMaster wrote: post #74
bondarchuk wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> The light reflection on the shoulder doesn't make much sense. People will really grasp at anything to find something to critique in generative AI, huh?

Wait, should we not critique? OK i'll fix that. It's perfect. Stop all work and development on it now guys, it's perfect. It has no flaws and makes no mistakes. Amazing I guess.

I think @bondarchuk took my comment out of context, quoting just the first line. No big deal, it's just hard to respond to that.

I don't even see an issue with that particular artefact, I think it's an interesting problem from a technical pov, hence literally every other part of my comment.

Re: Video to video with Stable Diffusion

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Post by nirav72 »

faitswulff wrote: post #63
davidy123 wrote: post #62

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is why I like the "open case design." Your "PC" is just a frame to hang components on, with nothing to enclose it. And the nice thing is these days people care a lot about quiet computers, so you can have an open frame case with three GPUs that is just making a not-unpleasant whooshing sound at full bore.

This exposes the components to more dust and potentially static shocks as a result. Cases are also designed to encourage airflow over specific components, so being case-free might not result in improved thermals. But it is certainly more convenient for tweaking your build.

I have a wall mounted Open design case (Thermaltake Core P5) - dust has not been an issue at all. In fact, getting rid of dust is lot easier. Since I don't have to open up the case to clean it out. I just use a handheld blower to blow out the dust every so often from the sides. Regardless, it for some reason has far less dust pile up than a close case. I assume because in close cases, dust has no room to move out as easily.

Re: Video to video with Stable Diffusion

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Post by ilyt »

faitswulff wrote: post #63
davidy123 wrote: post #62

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is why I like the "open case design." Your "PC" is just a frame to hang components on, with nothing to enclose it. And the nice thing is these days people care a lot about quiet computers, so you can have an open frame case with three GPUs that is just making a not-unpleasant whooshing sound at full bore.

This exposes the components to more dust and potentially static shocks as a result. Cases are also designed to encourage airflow over specific components, so being case-free might not result in improved thermals. But it is certainly more convenient for tweaking your build.

That's vastly overblown. I'd be more worried about pets or just accidents knocking some things off.

Re: Video to video with Stable Diffusion

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Post by ilyt »

j45 wrote: post #67
hospitalJail wrote: post #36

I was going to get a 4090 this year, but I just don't think 24gb VRAM is going to bee enough in the short term future(for AI related stuff). Ended up getting a 3060 for 1/4 of the cost, and I'm planning on using/paying for Colab until some 6090 comes out with 128gb vram. Something that kind of bothers me that I don't understand. Why is there such an obsession about having small computers/servers? I don't care if I ha…

Most consumer, prosumer and pro hardware has to have the EE/EMF figured out to be able to sell. Other things to setup your own gear that are worth looking into. Factoring in electricity costs is important too long term. Beyond this, running hardware long term: - If you run your hardware using a PDU (Power distribution unit) that conditions the electricity and keeps it stable, there is much less wear and tear on the e…

> - If you run your hardware using a PDU (Power distribution unit) that conditions the electricity and keeps it stable, there is much less wear and tear on the electronics, especially transistors, etc, that love to pop.

> Lots of gear out there like this: https://www.apc.com/us/en/product/AP7921B/apc-netshelter-swi...

Those distribute power. They have no kind of conditioning on board which you'd know if you read the link you provided. Those are just so you can remotely switch stuff on and off, any protection in datacenter would be in electric cabinet.

And you do want to have any protection, especially against overvoltage/lighting as far as possible from the device

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