"Move these things over there, and they should almost be assembled." Meng Fanqi looked at the messages on a few packages, and roughly recalled, "It seems that everything has arrived, and it was delivered quite quickly." ”

There are many things that college students need to consider when renting a house, and the inconvenience of eating and traveling is the top priority.

There are a lot of things going on in school, and if there is a disturbance, you have to rush back immediately.

Yenching Electric Power University is located in a corner of the city, with the fifth ring facing outward. To calculate the distance between the fourth and fifth ring roads, this has to be regarded as the North Seventh Ring Road.

It's a pity that the North Sixth Ring Road has its own clever plan to deal with you, making a big bend in an outrageous arc in the north of Yanjing, covering all the areas within 30 kilometers of the straight line outside the Fifth Ring Road.

The school can go to the Beijing-Tibet Expressway two steps away, and you can go directly to the Potala Palace all the way to the west.

The brother of Yanjing in this place is not happy to come, Meng Fanqi has been studying for more than a year, and he has never seen an authentic taxi here, it is all black cars with drivers bare their bellies outside ready to solicit customers.

Fortunately, the two people who have been suspended from school have been suspended, so they don't have to worry about the school at all.

The two of them walked on the road with a bunch of boxes of different sizes, especially the words "NVIDIA GeForce".

At this time, the concept and specifics of graphics cards are not so popular that everyone knows about them. But college students are more or less vague about it, and it seems that this thing is mainly used for playing games.

In addition, the two of them have taken a leave of absence, which is also somewhat well-known. On the way, many classmates felt that these two people were afraid that they were addicted to games and were hopeless.

"Real estate in Yanjing is far more expensive than I imagined, whether it is renting or housing." After Tang Juan inquired about some information about Meng Fanqi's previous rent, he was a little emotional.

"Who says it's not, I don't know if I don't check, the average price in January this year was only 30,000 flat, and it has risen to almost 40,000 in September." The shock in Meng Fanqi's tone was not fake, he began to pay attention to renting housing in 2018, when he finished graduate school, and the housing prices in 2013 were very old for him even at that time, and he thought it was very cheap.

"The east of the city has risen to 60,000 at this time, my God!" In 2022, when Meng Fanqi took out a mortgage, he learned about the housing prices in many areas, and at that time, the average price next to Pujiang, the most central part of Shanghai, was around 9-100,000 yuan, he really didn't expect that Yanjing had taken off to this point in 13 years, "Now it costs 1500+ to rent a single room in the second and third rings, it's really unimaginable." ”

"What grade do you want to live in Yanjing East and West City? Still dreaming, huh? "There are six people in a dormitory, and five of them are not from Yanjing. The speaking Don Juan was born in Anhui Province, Meng Fanqi is from the Northeast, Liu Xu is from Sichuan and Chongqing, Xueba Yiping is a Shadong man, and there is a Cantonese Lu Yue who is very good at singing and dancing.

"Living next to the Beijing-Tibet Expressway also costs 251 square meters." Meng Fanqi shook his head, "Pretending to live in Yanjing, in fact, it takes two hours to enter the city, so why bother." ”

Under the influence of Meng Fanqi, Don Juan began to think about the problem of work after graduation, the problem of the city, rather than tacitly ignoring it and pretending that the problem did not exist.

In his previous life, when he was reborn, only Don Juan had made the decision to settle in Shanghai. Meng Fanqi probably knows a little bit about the situation, and the strength of his family's support is quite large, and he has directly contributed about half of the amount.

But even so, Rao is Don Juan himself had a pre-tax income of nearly one million at that time, and he had to borrow for almost ten years to pay for it. And if the family can take out 600 W to support the child without hurting the muscles and bones, what proportion of the income can he have at this level?

Most people are just silently averaged numbers. Meng Fanqi traveled to Yanjing and Shanghai two or three times in 18-23 years, and finally chose Dalian near his hometown. Although most of this generation are only children, sometimes not only parents, but even grandparents are willing to use their coffins to help their juniors.

But Meng Fanqi really didn't want the elders to work harder, and it was too reluctant for them to continue to support him to settle down. After thinking about it, he chose to pay for it himself in Dalian. The average price in Dalian in 22 years is only 156,000, which is far less than the 13-year-old Yanjing Fifth Ring Road.

It feels good not to have to go to work and not have a loan.

Meng Fanqi felt that the gray haze sky in Yanjing was exceptionally blue. "This kind of culture and atmosphere is really strange, studying, living and working here, it doesn't belong here. Only when you buy a house can you really have a home. ”

"Let's go, try to assemble them all before dinner." After arriving at the location, it took almost half an hour just to unpack various cardboard boxes.

Looking at the scattered components, Meng Fanqi's eyes seemed to have gradually appeared after they were formed.

Here the path of fate forks.

Meng Fanqi glanced at Don Juan, there was confusion and nervousness in his eyes, but more anticipation.

Because Meng Fanqi agreed when he persuaded him to pay the money, if he didn't get a return that far exceeded the investment, he would call him dad in the future.

The configuration of the computer and the model of the graphics card are not an obscure niche topic after the rise of AI.

Don Juan was a little surprised when he first heard that the model was going to be calculated with a graphics card, after all, everyone's understanding of graphics cards at this time was basically limited to games.

If he told him that in fact, this thing in the largest cluster would even be used for "mining", and that a company could use up a fraction of the total electricity of a district or county or even a small city, his expression would be very exciting.

"Can we really afford such expensive equipment?" The GTX-690 graphics card is several thousand larger. Not to mention what CPU, memory, and even power supply, Meng Fanqi also grabbed the expensive ones when he bought them.

What the hell is this Corsair power supply, more than 800 watts, the price of more than 1,000, and the two sets of motherboard + CPU are 10,000.

Regardless of what mouse keyboard monitor is, it is the accessory installed in this main chassis alone, and a set will be less than 20,000. And that's not even counting the chassis itself.

"It's come to this, it's too late to regret it." Meng Fanqi didn't know that he would succeed, so he spent money indiscriminately. First of all, the graphics card is the top priority of computational reasoning, and it is the core competitiveness of AI/artificial intelligence.

In 2022, the United States even issued a ban prohibiting Nvidia from continuing to sell high-performance graphics cards such as A100 to Chinese companies.

If you are not worried about the adaptation of various ecology and code, you will choose the flagship model, GTX-690, more conservatively. Meng Fanqi even wanted to get the four-way Titan back.

The reason why I didn't do this was because the communication and training code between Doka was very immature at this time, and I didn't have time to deal with this problem.

The CPU and memory are because Meng Fanqi has no idea whether many codes before the TF era in 15 years are highly dependent on resources other than the graphics card.

After all, to process tens of millions of massive images, the CPU and memory modules must not be sloppy. Now that your wallets are empty, don't skimp on that.

Even the hard disk Meng Fanqi did not have a little mechanical hard disk, but was equipped with two 512G solid-state, Samsung 840 PRO. The program needs to read more than 10 million pictures frequently, dozens or hundreds of rounds, and this time cannot be delayed on the mechanical hard disk.

"Why do these two hard drives cost more than 7,000?" When Tang Juan first saw the list made by Meng Fanqi, he couldn't drink water, and he almost choked himself to death. "Your father, the notebook I bought last year was only seven or eight thousand."