Starting local AI on attic hardware: 3x NUC11 plus Ryzen 3700X rig
-markusb- · reddit · 2026-09-05
A redditor dusting off attic hardware wants to start a local AI journey (local chatbots, agents, RAG) with 3x NUC11 (i5 1145G7, 64GB DDR4, Thunderbolt interconnect) and a Ryzen 3700X rig with 64GB RAM and an RX 590 8GB. Plan: buy an RTX 5060 Ti or similar for the PCIe 3.0 x16 slot, keep the old Radeon for display, and later possibly build a multi-GPU rig. The thread solicits configuration ideas and typically draws advice on VRAM vs. old-platform bottlenecks.
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