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Running Qwen3.8 Flash Next on a CMP 90HX mining farm (94GB VRAM, PCIe Gen2)

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Hardware: - Motherboard: BTC79X9 (OEM dual-socket mining board, LGA2011) - 2x Xeon E5-2620 @ 2.0GHz (4C/8T total, AVX-only, no AVX2/FMA) - 15GB RAM (budget — that's why 32GB swap) - Storage: Patriot Burst 112GB SATA + Toshiba NVMe 512GB - 1x RTX 3090 24GB (GDDR6X) - 7x NVIDIA CMP 90HX 10GB GDDR6X =…

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  1. 2026-09-03 08:39 · r/LocalLLM
    Running Qwen3.8 Flash Next on a CMP 90HX mining farm (94GB VRAM, PCIe Gen2)

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