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#310481 23-Oct-2023 13:27

A little help if I may

Updating my desktop and want stable diffusion ability this config is availbele secondhand for $800-900

will it do the job?

Intel Core i7 10700F 8 Core.
16GB Ram
500GB SSD- NVIDIA GeForce RTX3060 12GB-AC WiFi+ Bluetooth
Windows 11 Home.

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#3151697 24-Oct-2023 11:18

Hard to precisely answer, because there's a bunch of forks of Stable Diffusion with different requirements/strengths, different use cases for said forks and also in general it's one of those "the more money you throw at it the better it's going to be" kinda things. People have gotten all sorts of configs "working" with various forks of Stable Diffusion but that doesn't mean it works well.

SDXL for instance says you really need a minimum of 32gb of RAM and a 12gb GPU, but it's very YMMV.

I'd say with 16gb of RAM and a 3060 12gb you will be able to get some form of it working. If you just want to tinker it's probably fine, if you're thinking of some sort of commercial/production use for it probably go much bigger.

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#3151724 24-Oct-2023 12:36

Lias:

Hard to precisely answer, because there's a bunch of forks of Stable Diffusion with different requirements/strengths, different use cases for said forks and also in general it's one of those "the more money you throw at it the better it's going to be" kinda things. People have gotten all sorts of configs "working" with various forks of Stable Diffusion but that doesn't mean it works well.

SDXL for instance says you really need a minimum of 32gb of RAM and a 12gb GPU, but it's very YMMV.

I'd say with 16gb of RAM and a 3060 12gb you will be able to get some form of it working. If you just want to tinker it's probably fine, if you're thinking of some sort of commercial/production use for it probably go much bigger.

Thanks for the reply . Yep I agree with the more you spend etc. This will be "tinkering" I should be able to increase the ram to 32gb I would assume fairly easily? as long as adding ram sticks hasnt changed?

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#3151753 24-Oct-2023 14:06

gnfb:

I should be able to increase the ram to 32gb I would assume fairly easily? as long as adding ram sticks hasnt changed?

Not majorly no.

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#3151886 24-Oct-2023 17:47

Big thing these days is ensuring the motherboard can utilise the speed of the RAM (you can install faster but it will be limited to the highest the motherboard can achieve), and that you stick to the supported installation configurations and some recommend pairs to enable dual channel support etc.

Fundamentally same as in the past, just read the manual and check forums for recommended compatible units. Alienware hardware for example is known to be quite picky about supported ram brands and types.

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#3151900 24-Oct-2023 20:11

If you just want to create artwork then you should be fine once you up the RAM. You won't be able to do much more than that, though, without a GPU with at least 20GB of VRAM so you can create your own LoRAs, etc.

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#3151902 24-Oct-2023 20:43

Have you tried just using midjourney and dall-e? I'm enjoying both but have been using midjourney the most.

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#3151908 24-Oct-2023 21:11

Any particular reason you want to build a desktop instead of use a service?

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#3152040 25-Oct-2023 12:46

gehenna: Have you tried just using midjourney and dall-e? I'm enjoying both but have been using midjourney the most.

I have been using leonardo.ai free version and its great. Is midjourney the one that you use through discord? That I found very painful to use.

I tried the one on google that was great but ran out of credit.

So I have played around in a very blundering kind of way. I need to update my main desktop so thought if I was going to I should make sure that if I wanted to I could run a version of stable diffusion on it.

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#3152072 25-Oct-2023 14:09

Midjourney is simple, simpler than having to build a new PC. You just message the bot what you want. How's that hard?

edit: sorry re-read and that came across like I broke Wheaton's Law unintentionally. PM me if you want some help getting MidJourney working, it is quite simple and powerful, and works across all devices that use Discord as you know.

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#3152381 26-Oct-2023 13:48

gehenna:

Midjourney is simple, simpler than having to build a new PC. You just message the bot what you want. How's that hard?

edit: sorry re-read and that came across like I broke Wheaton's Law unintentionally. PM me if you want some help getting MidJourney working, it is quite simple and powerful, and works across all devices that use Discord as you know.

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#3152440 26-Oct-2023 17:17

If you don't like the Discord interface, you might instead like to try OpenAI's Dall-E. The latest version (Dall-E 3) works very well. You can access it via the Bing assistant service to get an idea of its capabilities, or if you want a more in-depth look, pay for a month's worth of ChatGTP plus for about NZD$40 and see if it can do what you want.

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#3160153 16-Nov-2023 14:11

So I had a machine built for me waiting to arrive will post how we go!

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