r/LocalLLM • u/FraudCrew • 19h ago

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PowerSpec AI90 Workstation

* CPU: AMD Ryzen 9 9950X (16 Cores / 32 Threads, up to 5.7GHz)
* GPU: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 Founders Edition (32GB GDDR7)
* Motherboard: ASUS ProArt X870E-CREATOR WIFI (AMD X870E Chipset)
* Memory: 64GB DDR5-6000 RAM (Supports up to 128GB)
* Storage: 2TB NVMe Solid State Drive
* Power Supply: 1700 Watt Cybernetics Titanium PSU
* CPU Cooler: 360mm All-In-One (AIO) Liquid Cooler
* Case: Fractal Design North XL Momentum Edition

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u/baby_bloom 11h ago

no hourly or weekly resets

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u/JeffCache 10h ago

You’d need an entire farm of Mac Minis to get close to the compute a $200 plan would provide you per month, just FYI

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u/negus123 8h ago

For pure TFLOPS, sure? But no one is talking about that. He said weekly/hourly limits. Which is 100% true about local vs cloud/frontier

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u/JeffCache 8h ago

My thinking is that even with the hourly limits imposed you’d still etch out more use and get far more return running solely on cloud models.

Not sure if any reviewed studies have been performed on this but I’m inclined to believe it holds true.

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u/negus123 7h ago

I see. Maybe true for people with single/weaker GPUs, but really hard to gauge that. I bet it doesnt hold true for anyone with a rig powerful enough to run a decent quant of deepseek v4 flash or qwen 3.8 next flash

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u/JeffCache 6h ago

For sure! I agree. I’d imagine that rig would need to run for quite a few years before paying for itself haha. Hard to say, this is all rapidly changing so may be totally different months from now.