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Upgrade Question If we say the 'budget max' is 1700-1800, and this could include upgrading to a Taichi motherboard: With a new motherboard, no need to bifurcate 1. Would you add a second 5060Ti (16GB)
Upgrade Question If we say the "budget max" is 1700-1800, and this could include upgrading to a Taichi motherboard: With a new motherboard, no need to bifurcate 1. Would you add a second 5060Ti (16GB)? Someone is selling one for around 500 locally; 2. Buy a used 7900 XTX (24GB VRAM); local seller, $850 All-in on the GPU, I'd have to make the current motherboard work for my use-case 3. Or, just go for an R9700? (No budget for Motherboard upgrade) Current system - 96GB system RAM (DDR5) - 5060Ti (16 GB VRAM) - Llama Cpp but I built for CUDA; default Vulkan had issues, and the GPU would "disappear" - ASRock X870 Pro (only 1 PCIe 5.0 x16) - I could run a second card very slowly at x4 - Researching if I could bifurcate x8/x8 in the 5.0 slot I bought this PC used as-is; I do contemplate upgrading the MoBo to an X870E Taichi for 2 fast PCIe lanes The "largest" models I currently run - Strata IQ3_S (just tried this yesterday, was impressed) - RentedNoodle/Qwen3.8-27B-GSQ-RCO-IQ3_XXS-Uncensored My most typical uses - writing code - analysing documents (PDFs) - analysing maps and images The idea is to use something like Headscale or Tailscale at some point so I can always access local LLM from laptop if I'm not home. Yes, I'm aware of "workstation" motherboards, CPUs, etc. and I'm not at a point right now where I want to take that path. submitted by /u/espece-de-bon [link] [comments]
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Source: r/LocalLLaMA | 2026-10-07