Best $4,000 Local LLM Rig? Weighing R9700s, Strix Halo, and 6x Arc B60
BinaryGrind · reddit · 2026-10-07
A r/LocalLLaMA user asks how best to spend $4,000 (stretchable to $4,200) on hardware to run Qwen-class models locally. Candidates: 2x Radeon AI R9700 (128GB VRAM), a Strix Halo box with 128GB unified memory (after the DGX Spark price hike), 6x Intel Arc B60 (144GB total, but weak performance and needs a 6-GPU platform), or a Mac Mini/Studio. They already own NVMe drives, DDR4/DDR5 DIMMs, an i7-14700K, and a Ryzen 9700x to reuse.
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