5950x + ASrock 570m PRO 4 = fully headless vLLM box

<table> <tr><td> <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/1sz0lyk/16x_dgx_sparks_what_should_i_run/"> <img alt="16x DGX Sparks - What should I run?"

<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>Few days ago I posted about my <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/1t94ito/i_have_deepseek_v4_pro_at_home/">DeepSeek V4 Pro</a>

<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p><strong>Geezuz, its fast!</strong></p> <p>Qwen3.8-27B, two RTX 3090s power-limited to 280 W, plain PCIe, no NVLink, at 0 Context:<br /> (tests

<table> <tr><td> <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/1s6g67w/x13_dual_xeon_silver_4415_1_tb_ram_4_x_nvidia/"> <img alt="X13 + Dual Xeon Silver 4415 + 1 TB RAM +

<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>Today I set up a full coding toolbox on a single RTX 5080 (with RAM offloading) that's actually viable.</p> <p><strong>Autocomplete</strong>:

<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>&quot;Hardware is the only moat&quot;.</p> <p>I read that quote yesterday, and at first, I thought it was just another person trying to sound

<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>So i recently updated LMstudio after a long pause and updated my llama.cpp runtimes too.. i was shocked.. i thought maybe something like

<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>That foodtruck bench post showing deepseek v4 matching gpt-5.2 at 17x cheaper got me thinking. if frontier cloud models are that overpriced for