Building a €2-2.5k local AI rig for legal RAG and agentic coding: hardware picks debated
whatyathinkk · reddit · 2026-09-04
A Redditor outlines plans to build a shared €2,000-2,500 local AI rig: his partner, a lawyer, needs a privacy-preserving local setup for RAG over client databases, document parsing and generation, while he wants local performance close to dsv4flash for agentic coding (possibly a good quant of Qwen Next Flash).
His leading candidate is a €1k Lenovo server with 128GB DDR4 plus a €1.4k Radeon R9700, though he is also weighing bosgame M5, V100S, MI50/MI60 and 5060 Ti options, and asks the community for concrete recommendations. The thread is a useful window into real-world local-deployment trade-offs for privacy-sensitive workloads and budget agentic coding.
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