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Old server machine with 2x 3060 12GB for MoE models, anything I’m missing?

I'm about to buy a used HP Z640 for around €550. It has 2x E5-2680 v4, 64GB ECC at 2400, and a Quadro M6000 24GB that comes with it. The seller’s MemTest86 ran 6 hours with no errors. The plan is to add two 3060s in the x16 slots and run Qwen 3.8 Flash Next on Strata, as well as of course normal ll…

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  1. 2026-10-20 08:40 · r/LocalLLaMA
    Old server machine with 2x 3060 12GB for MoE models, anything I’m missing?

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