Fucking piece of shit Sam Altman should be executed on a wooden plank and his corpse should be displayed on a public square for the next 100 years.
I was saving up for building a pc but at this point I'd rather just throw my money in a fire than buy RAM or SSD. Even Apple has better Ram pricing than these goons.
Any tips on a specific server model(s)? Years ago I got a GIANT ebay 4u server which I intended to use as a security video server and run a custum isa 16channel bnc card but none of the linux drivers worked. I then started to write my own driver based on video4linux but the card was so old I couldn't find white paper on i/o specs and scope and logic analyzer couldn't handle the frequencies for reverse engineering so I just used it for a year as a 200lb ~~paperweight~~ samba server. If I could find something cheap and lightweight with modern hardware that could possibly work. If it already came with the ram that would be a nice bonus.
Memory bandwidth is what you need. An EPYC 9xx4 / 9xx5 with all 12 DDR5 DIMMs, or a newish dual socket Xeon with 16 modules.
With fast memory the GPU is unnecessary until you want to do training which needs a lot of FLOPS.
The uhh 13th gen dell servers are fine. They support 1.5t of ram and have lots of expansion slots.