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Planning to get a cheap-ish GPU. Would appreciate some advice.

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Hi, I've been wanting to run my own local LLM for some time and I finally saved enough to get a budget GPU. I can spend 700$ at most, and I'm looking for a GPU that can run quantized 30B~ parameter models with decent speed. Being able to run Qwen 3.8 27 B Q4_K_M and similar models at +20 T/s is goo…

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  1. 2026-09-06 17:25 · r/LocalLLaMA
    Planning to get a cheap-ish GPU. Would appreciate some advice.

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