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Need advice on buying 2 GPUs and MB for a beginner. Want to try Qwen3.8 27B.

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I'm thinking to buy two RTX 5060 Ti 16gb (PCIe 5.0 x8) for total 32gb VRAM and motherboard Asrock X870 Taichi Creator (PCIe 5.0 x8 / x8). Already have AMD Ryzen 7 7700 and 32gb DDR5. Will this be enough to start trying Qwen3.8 27B for simple tasks?

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  1. 2026-09-04 17:33 · r/LocalLLM
    Need advice on buying 2 GPUs and MB for a beginner. Want to try Qwen3.8 27B.

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