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paxys 5 days ago

You can build a decent rig for yourself with:

- 2x 4070 Ti (32 GB total VRAM) - $2200

- 64 GB RAM - $200-250

- Core i9/Ryzen 9 CPU - $450

- 2 TB SSD - $150

- Motherboard, cooler, case, PSU - $500-600

Total - ~$3500-3700, say $4000 with extras.

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gaws 2 days ago | parent | next [-]

> - 2x 4070 Ti (32 GB total VRAM) - $2200

4070 card for $1,100? In this market?

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flashgordon 5 days ago | parent | prev [-]

wow - do you mind sharing any links to a specific setup? Also whats the biggest model anybody has run on this?

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paxys 5 days ago | parent | next [-]

You can run a decent model on it, say highly quantized Qwen or Deepseek R1 getting 5-10 tokens/sec output, but it will be nothing in comparison to a commercial offering like Claude, o3 or Gemini. For that you need a datacenter-class GPU going for $50K-100K a pop.

	▲	mtkd 4 days ago \| parent [-]
		But a small collective running that box, especially spanning timezones, could potentially be a viable alternative or will be soon -- with obv privacy gains too

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lossolo 5 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Unfortunately, you will not be able to run any model on this that is comparable to the Claude models.

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icelancer 5 days ago | parent | prev [-]

Every model you run on that setup will be at best half as good as Sonnet 4.