…running local LLMs on modern consumer GPUs. The priorities are fitting the model, keeping context usable, avoiding wasted VRAM, and getting acceptable speed without enterprise hardware. Its EXL3 quantization format, tensor-parallel…
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…box, but if your hardware is newer, chances are Fedora will harmonize better with it than Ubuntu can. This matters more now than it has previously, because GPU drivers and laptop firmwares…
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…The same applies to virtual machines, and although I had some problems passing a GPU to a VM on a single graphics card setup, the GPU passthrough provisions work exceedingly well on…
…You’ll want to modify the display setting in the Hardware tab (or graphics card, as it’s called in the VM creation wizard) of your virtual machine to something other than…
…You can now assign Nvidia and other supported GPUs directly to your LXCs from the container configuration screen, which opens the door to running things like Ollama, Immich with hardware acceleration, or…
…Sign in to your XDA account Despite spending my teenage years drooling over enterprise-tier hardware, my current home lab mostly consists of consumer-grade systems, with the only outlier being a…
…configured GPU passthrough for a bunch of LXCs on my Ryzen-based Proxmox node, and even set up provisions to quickly wipe out the config files and move my graphics card to…
…The data center demand has hit the consumer GPU vertical hard, but manufacturers don't care anymore. Nvidia and AMD are making bank by supplying enterprise GPUs to companies jumping on the…