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The poor's man Frankenstein machine

TL;DR: a retired HP DL380p with 172 GB of DDR3 and an RX 6900 XT bolted into it, serving long-context models at 25–45 tok/s. I had an old DL380p lying around with 172 GB of ancient DDR3 and 2× 10-core / 20-thread CPUs. I'd retired it because it burns far too much power for what I need, and I had no…

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  1. 2026-10-06 08:38 · r/LocalLLM
    The poor's man Frankenstein machine

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