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Beginner looking to run LLMs locally – Need some advice

Hey everyone! I'm an AI & Data Science student looking to get started with local LLMs. My laptop specs: CPU: Ryzen 7 8745HX GPU: RTX 5060 (8GB VRAM) RAM: 32GB DDR5 Storage: 1TB SSD I'm new to this and have a few questions: Should I use Ollama or LM Studio? Which models would run best on my hardware…

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  1. 2026-11-06 19:14 · r/LocalLLM
    Beginner looking to run LLMs locally – Need some advice

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