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What's the motivation behind vibe-hobbying?
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this post was submitted on 20 Sep 2026
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I recently got a 7900 XTX. It’s about the cheapest 24GB card still available at a reasonably sane price. I’m running Qwen 3.8 27B on llama.cpp with 200k context at 4 bit quant with 700 t/s prefill and 30 t/s decode.
Edit:
I just read through the linked article and the one thing it doesn’t mention is quantized KV cache. I’m running 4 bit on both the model and the cache so I can fit 200k context in 24GB. It works really well and I don’t really notice a difference between my setup and Claude Sonnet 5 that I use at work.
128GB sounds nice for running even larger models, but probably not something I can justify in my budget at today’s prices. My XTX was like $700 after trading in my 3070, so I was able to do that.
Edit 2:
Damn, the cheapest XTX I see new now is $1400. Mine was in the $900s a couple months ago. They’re still going in the $800s used on eBay, which is still better than $1500 for a used 3090.
Absolutely insane prices. This bubble got to go.