[chisleu]

Right on. I also have a laundry list of ML things I want to do starting with fine tuning models.

I don't mind paying for models to do things like code. I like to move really fast when I'm coding. But for other things, I just didn't want to spend a week or two coming up on the hardware needed to build a GPU system. You can just order a big GPU box, but it's going to cost you astronomically right now. Building a system with 4-5 PCIE 5.0 x16 slots, enough power, enough pcie lanes... It's a lot to learn. You can't go on PC part picker and just hunt a motherboard with 6 double slots.

This is a machine to let me do some things with local models. My first goal is to run some quantized version of the new V3 model and try to use it for coding tasks.

I expect it will be slow for sure, but I just want to know what it's capable of.