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Run AI locally — without guessing the hardware.
Independent, hands-on reviews and buying guides for GPUs, workstations and cloud rigs to run local LLMs, Stable Diffusion and deep learning.
? Which rig fits me?
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| Budget | Rig | VRAM | Runs |
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| $500+ | Starter — used RTX 3060 | 12 GB | 8B–13B models, SD 1.5 |
| $1,000+ | Entry — RTX 4060 Ti 16GB | 16 GB | 13B models, SDXL |
| $2,000+ | Sweet spot — RTX 3090 build | 24 GB | 34B + 70B (quantized), SDXL |
| $3,500+ | Fast — RTX 4090 build | 24 GB | fast 34B, 70B quant, light training |
| $5,000+ | Workstation — 2× 24GB | 48 GB | 70B comfortably, fine-tuning |
| $8,000+ | Pro — multi-GPU / RTX 6000 Ada | 48–96 GB | large training, multi-70B |
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Hardware
GPUs, builds and prebuilt workstations to run AI locally — tested picks at every budget.
Software & Tools
Run-it apps (LM Studio, Ollama, Open WebUI) and the dev setup around local AI.
Models
Which model to run, quantization, and the best local model for each job.
Cloud & Hosting
Rent GPUs (RunPod, Vast, Lambda) and host your AI — VPS, GPU hosting and domains.
Learn
Courses and books to go from running models to truly understanding them.
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