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Intel Optane + huge MoE model = affordable "we have frontier at home?"

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I am just now learning what Intel Optane memory is after coming across an ebay listing for quite a lot of it for cheap. It looks like you could pick up 1tb of it for less than $1000. Even with the slower memory and cpu speeds of the required 3rd gen scalable xeon cpus, it strikes me as a feasible w…

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  1. 2026-09-09 04:42 · r/LocalLLM
    Intel Optane + huge MoE model = affordable "we have frontier at home?"

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