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Guidance on hardware purchase (2x Intel Xeon E5-2698 v4)

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It's me again and still looking for hardware advice.. please :) Thinking about buying this slightly ridiculous old workstation mainly for local LLMs: 2x Xeon E5-2698 v4, so 40 cores / 80 threads total RTX 3090 24GB 128GB DDR4 ECC 6TB NVMe custom water loop I will run Windows 11 because this needs t…

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    Guidance on hardware purchase (2x Intel Xeon E5-2698 v4)

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