Reusing old hardware for starting local ai-journey?
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- 09/05, 09:53
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- 09/05, 20:00
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Hi,
I am thinking about putting some money / time into my local ai learning path and "cleared" my attic where I found the following hardware.
- 3 x NUC11 (Core i5 1145G7 / 2,6 GHz, 64 GB RAM DDR4 2666MHZ - SODIMM) with interconnect through Thunderbolt
- 1x Ryzen 3700x on MSI Mortar 350 with 64GB RAM DDR4 2133 and an old SAPPHIRE Nitro+ Radeon RX 590 8GB
My first idea was to purchase a single RTX5060TI / R9700 and put it into the PCIe 3.0 x16 slot while reusing the Radeon as GPU in the PCIe 2.0 slot for Display.
I want to play around with a local chat bot, agentic stuff, RAG...
Do you have any other ideas? I also though about putting some serious money, but for this discussion I probably open a new thread (this could be a 2-step-path where I reuse the GPU above to built a multi-gpu-rig)