Black Friday nears: Reddit asks for a cost-effective rig for light-to-medium local LLM inference
f1yingbanana · reddit · 2026-11-04
A Reddit user with an 8-year-old GTX 1070 Ti machine (barely ran 32B models before switching to APIs) asks for cost-effective build recommendations ahead of Black Friday for light-to-medium local inference like Qwen 3.8 flash next, including expected speeds and image generation performance.
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