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Heavy local LLM use kills old ram

Running a 2019 Thinkstation 920 populated with 128MB ECC RAM, Dual Xeon. Each physical slot has an 8GB stick. Nothing overclocked or tweaked. 5070ti 16gb card. Have been running small models, 20b and down (to fit it all in vram) for about 6 months - no problems at all - even hammering on it for hou…

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  1. 2026-09-29 15:00 · r/LocalLLM
    Heavy local LLM use kills old ram

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