Gamer Builds Local LLM Home Lab with Four 16GB GPUs
HippEMechE · reddit · 2026-07-07
A Reddit user shared a local LLM home lab built on four 16GB GPUs. Using main-slot bifurcation and PCIe 3.0 x1 risers, it runs two llama.cpp instances and deploys Qwen 3.6 with speculative decoding (q40, 150k context per instance), achieving around 1000 tok/s prompt processing and 45-60 tok/s generation.
They built a backend using opencode to manage llama.cpp and token counting, estimating they have already saved about $60 in API fees.
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