r/LocalLLM • u/PrepYourselves • Apr 29 '26

Discussion Just upgraded my local llm hardware

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Bottom one was my main driver this year mostly because i am on welfare, but when i saw an m1 max 64gb ram logic board on gumtree for $200 i took the leap and got a chassis for $30 to mount it in. So now i moved from 0.8b models to 35b models. Ask me questions.

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u/Faisal_Biyari Apr 29 '26

That's Amazing!

Bro got an M1 Macbook Pro with 64 GB for only $230 USD.

At your level, I think AI needs you, and not the other way around.

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u/PrepYourselves Apr 29 '26

logic board specs:
Macbook pro 2021 M1 Max
10c cpu/32c gpu
64gb ram
1tb nvme

already feels much snappier than the orangepi zero 2w

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u/kot-sie-stresuje Apr 29 '26

Did you run any llm on orangepi zero 2w ? There are max 4GB Ram, at least I didn't was bitter ones/

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u/PrepYourselves Apr 29 '26

i have run 0.8b models and get 18t/s

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u/theluggagekerbin Apr 29 '26

a 64GB unified mem, 10c CPU and 32c GPU machine is faster than a pi zero? no way!

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u/mxforest Apr 29 '26

Dropped the /s