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Building a personal, private AI computer on a budget

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For instance, it was not strictly necessary to buy a brand new dummy GPU (see below), or I could have found someone that would 3D print the cooling fan shroud for me, instead of shipping a ready-made one from a faraway country. After some further searching and reading the opinions of my fellow internet citizens, my guess is that things will be fine, provided that we keep it in the lower 70s. I spent a bit more money than planned, but I got what I wanted: a way of locally running medium-sized models, completely under my own control.

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