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I Unlocked a $800 Mining GPU into a 64GB, 256K-Context Uncensored AI Coding Server at 84 tok/s across full context length.

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I have spent the last several days turning a used NVIDIA CMP 170HX into a practical long-context inference card. The final result is an uncensored Qwen3.8-27B endpoint with: 262,144-token native context W4A16 AWQ model body INT8 output head and INT8 MTP draft module One-token MTP speculative decodi…

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  1. 2026-08-23 07:11 · r/LocalLLM
    I Unlocked a $800 Mining GPU into a 64GB, 256K-Context Uncensored AI Coding Server at 84 tok/s across full context length.

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