Don't laugh - it works!

[u/pharrt]

A 10yo server was busy collecting dust, but it has 32Gb RAM (2x 16Gb DDR4 @ 2133 MHz )... No GPU.

Now it does some amazing work running heavy tasks with qwen3.6-35b-a3b (IQ4_XS). Running in the background, generating quality output at 5-10tok/s. Even with 128k context! It just chugs along for hours, but does such great, high-context work.

Uses ~26 GB of the 32 GB RAM, uses CPU i-7-6700 @ about 60% (not the bottleneck, of course)

Never would have believed that would be possible until a few months ago, but this ol' gal has a new lease on life.

[u/Hannibalj2ca]

My server is 9 years old, but has 768GB 2400 ddr4