"Move these things here and they should be almost ready to assemble." Meng Fanqi looked at the information on several packages and briefly recalled, "It seems that everything that should be there has arrived, and it was delivered quite quickly."
Generally, college students need to consider many things when renting an apartment, 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 any disturbance, you have to rush back immediately.
Yanjing Electric Power University is located in a corner, with the five rings facing outward. Calculated based on the distance between the Fourth Ring Road and the Fifth Ring Road, this has to be considered the North Seventh Ring Road.
It's a pity that the North Sixth Ring Road has its own clever plan to deal with you. It makes 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.
Just two steps from the school, you can get on the Beijing-Tibet Expressway, and you can go straight west to the Potala Palace.
No one from Yanjing is willing to come to this place. Meng Fanqi has been studying for more than a year and has never seen an authentic taxi here. They are all black cars with drivers showing their bellies and preparing to solicit passengers.
Fortunately, the two of them have been suspended from school one after another, and now they don't have to worry about school problems at all.
The two of them were holding a bunch of boxes of different sizes, which was very eye-catching as they walked on the road, especially the words "NVIDIA GeForce".
At this time, the concept and specifics of graphics cards were not so popular that everyone knew about them. But college students more or less vaguely know that this thing seems to be mainly used for playing games.
In addition, the two of them took a leave of absence from school one after another, so they are somewhat famous. Many classmates on the road felt that these two people were addicted to games and were hopeless.
"Real estate in Yanjing is far more expensive than I thought, whether it's renting or housing." Tang Juan sighed a little after asking for some information about Meng Fanqi's previous rentals.
"Who says it's not? You wouldn't know if you didn't check. The average price in January this year was only 30,000 per square meter, and now in September it has risen to almost 40,000." The shock in Meng Fanqi's tone was not fake. He began to pay attention to renting a house. It was already 2018 when he finished his graduate school when he moved into housing. The housing prices in 2013 were a very long time ago for him even at the time. He thought they were very cheap.
"The price in Chengdong has risen to 60,000 yuan at this time, my God!" When Meng Fanqi took out the mortgage loan in 2022, he learned about the housing prices in many areas. At that time, the average housing price next to Pujiang River in the center of Shanghai was 9 -100,000 or so. He really didn't expect that Yanjing would have taken off to this point in 2013. "Now it costs 1,500+ to rent a single room in the second and third ring roads. It's really unimaginable."
"Want to live in the East and West Towns of Yanjing at any level? Are you still dreaming?" There are six people in a dormitory, and five of them are not from Yanjing. The Tang Juan who spoke was born in Anhui Province, Meng Fanqi is from the Northeast, Liu Xu is from Sichuan and Chongqing, the top student Yiping is a Shadong man, and there is a Cantonese boy Lu Yue who is good at singing and dancing.
"It costs 25,000 per square meter to live next to the Beijing-Tibet Expressway." Meng Fanqi shook his head, "Pretend to live in Yanjing, but it actually takes two hours to get into the city. Why bother."
Influenced by Meng Fanqi, Tang Juan began to think about the problem of work after graduation and the problem of the city earlier, instead of tacitly ignoring it and pretending that the problem did not exist.
By the time he was reborn in his previous life, only Don Juan had made the decision to settle in Shanghai. Meng Fanqi probably knew a little bit about the situation. His family's support was quite strong, and they probably directly contributed about half of the amount.
But even so, even though Don Juan had a pre-tax income of nearly one million at that time, he had to take out a loan for almost ten years to cover the burden. And if the family can spend 600 W to support their children without breaking a sweat, what percentage of them can have this level of income?
Most people are just numbers that are averaged out in silence. Meng Fanqi moved to Yanjing and Shanghai two or three times from 2018 to 2023, but finally chose Dalian near his hometown. Although most people in this generation have only children, sometimes not only parents, but also grandparents are willing to use their coffin books to help the younger generation.
But Meng Fanqi really didn't want his elders to work any more, and it was too reluctant for them to continue to support him in settling down. After thinking about it, he chose to bear the responsibility by himself in Dalian. The average price in Dalian in 2022 was only 15,600, which was even far less than the Yanjing Fifth Ring Road in 2013.
It feels so good not to have to work and not have a loan.
Meng Fanqi felt that the gray and hazy sky in Yanjing was particularly blue. "This kind of culture and atmosphere is really strange. Studying, living and working here doesn't count as belonging here. Only when you buy a house can you really have a home."
"Let's go, try to assemble and configure them all before dinner." After arriving at the location, it took almost half an hour just to unpack various cartons.
Looking at the scattered components, Meng Fanqi's eyes seemed to have gradually begun to see what they would look like after they were formed.
The paths of destiny fork here.
Meng Fanqi glanced at Tang Juan. There was confusion and nervousness in his eyes, but more of it was expectation.
Because Meng Fanqi agreed when he persuaded him to pay. If he didn't get a return that far exceeded his investment, he would call him dad from now on.
Computer configurations and graphics card models are not obscure niche topics after the rise of AI.
Don Juan was a little surprised when he first heard that this model required a graphics card to calculate. After all, everyone's understanding of graphics cards at this time was basically limited to games.
If he had told him that the largest cluster could even be used for "mining", and that a company could use up a fraction of the total electricity of a district, county or even a small city, his expression would definitely be wonderful.
"Do we really need such expensive equipment?" A GTX-690 graphics card costs several thousand. Not to mention CPU, memory, and even power supplies, Meng Fanqi also grabbed the expensive ones when shopping.
What the hell is this Corsair power supply? It has more than 800 watts, and the price is several thousand dollars. The motherboard + CPU set is another ten thousand or several thousand.
Regardless of the mouse, keyboard and monitor, the accessories installed in the main chassis alone cost 20,000 yuan. That’s not even counting the chassis itself.
"The matter has come to this, and it's too late to regret it." Meng Fanqi didn't spend money randomly because he knew he would succeed. First of all, the graphics card is the most important thing for computational reasoning and 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 the A100 to Chinese companies.
If I were not worried about the current adaptation issues of various ecology and codes, I would choose the flagship model, GTX-690, more conservatively. Meng Fanqi even wanted to bring back the four-way Titan.
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 at all.
As for CPU and memory, Meng Fanqi has no idea whether many codes before the TF era of 15 years are highly dependent on resources other than graphics cards.
After all, to process tens of millions of massive images, the CPU and memory must not be careless. Now that your wallet is empty, don’t skimp on this.
Even the hard drive Meng Fanqi does not have a mechanical hard drive, but is equipped with two 512G solid-state, Samsung 840 PRO. The program needs to frequently read dozens or hundreds of rounds of more than 10 million pictures, and this time cannot be wasted on the mechanical hard disk.
"These two hard drives cost more than 7,000 yuan?" When Tang Juan saw Meng Fanqi's list for the first time, he couldn't even drink water and almost choked himself to death. "The notebook your father and I bought last year cost only seven to eight thousand."
