I want to host some LLM’s locally and use more advanced models. Since new hardware is out of the question, I think I should be able to pull something off buying some yesteryear equipment on ebay etc. Did anybody attempt such a project? Does it scale horizontally? (I.e. can I connext two boxes to overcome single box slowness?)
512 gb would future proof you to run any local LLMs for quite a while. The speed at which they did it wasn’t exactly bad too afaik due to uram being so fast. Dunno what other setup would compete here for the price.