• grue@lemmy.world
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    11 days ago

    If I’ve got 128GB of RAM but it’s really slow RAM (DDR3), can I run a good model really slow or will it just not work at all?

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      11 days ago

      It’ll be slow but it’ll run.

      Though even 128GB isn’t enough for the biggest models. 512 would open up more options and the very biggest need like 2-4TB, totally out of scope for personal use.

      You could try a medium-big MoE model (Mixture of Experts) with less than 100b total parameters. Maybe start with something modest like Qwen3.6-35B-A3B at 8bit quants. That’ll leave you with plenty of memory left over for context size.