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What's the motivation behind vibe-hobbying?
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No, that's the wrong hardware for Qwen 3.8-27B. Strix Halo is good for MoE models like Qwen3.6-35B-A3B and some of the Gemma4 variants, but it's slow for dense models like Qwen3.8-27B.
You want a discrete card (or more likely, cards) to run that model. I run it primarily on an AMD R9700 (32GB) card, and spill over to an AMD 7900 XTX (24GB) when I need more context space.
If you're hunting for a GPU right now and want to keep costs down, keep your eyes open for deals (I snagged the 24GB card for $800 US a few months ago when I saw an offer for a refurb. card) and look at unusual combos like 3x 16GB cards if you've got a motherboard that can handle it. If you're seriously considering a 128GB Strix Halo box at current prices, I'd recommend just getting two R9700s instead unless you actually have a non-LLM use for 128GB of RAM.
Thanks, good info. In that case I'll speculate on snagging some used AMD HBM enterprise gear with 64 GB or more.