Built a home server from an old PC with GPU upgrade. Qwen3.8 27B runs at ~30 tokens per second.

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I needed a relatively simple but acceptable level of AI for working on one project. I didn't have any heavy requests, I just needed to give the AI access to the project files so it could search through them for bugs and stuff. I already had an old computer that I decided not to throw away and instead give it a new life as a git server (and sometimes a minecraft server). The pc specs are ancient by today's standards: CPU: i7-4790K 4.6 GHz Motherboard: MSI Z97 Gaming 7 RAM: 32 GB DDR3 2400 PSU: 75