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User escalates local LLM hardware, finds initial setup sufficient

A user shared their experience of escalating hardware purchases for running large language models locally, starting with a single RTX 5090 for 27B models and fine-tuning. This led to acquiring two RTX 6000 Pros in anticipation of larger models, only to realize their initial 5090 was sufficient for most daily tasks, prompting them to lend out the extra compute. The user then posed a question to the community about their daily LLM model usage. AI

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User escalates local LLM hardware, finds initial setup sufficient

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  1. r/LocalLLaMA TIER_1 English(EN) · /u/Ok-Shower7286 ·

    Bought a 5090 to escape API fees. Ended up building a mini datacenter. Sound familiar?

    <!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>I bought an RTX 5090 last year just to run 27B models natively. I even fine-tuned it with my own data using LoRA, building RAGs and was pretty damn happy with the results at first. But, Q8 quantization 130k context was barely squeezing through. N…