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Is a single worn out 3090 and a 13980hx with 32gb ddr4 good enough to get started messing with ai coding?

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I have a 3090 I got for $150 nzd($75~ usd?) that I Jerry rigged up to work a few years ago and a modt motherboard with a 13980hx cpu running ddr4 with 32gb 3200mhz in it Been playing with lm studio and various local llms, found that the biggest I can do and still have speed and a context length of…

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  1. 2026-09-08 06:02 · r/LocalLLM
    Is a single worn out 3090 and a 13980hx with 32gb ddr4 good enough to get started messing with ai coding?

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