A creative and industrious localmaxxer bought a used Dell server from 2012 for $750 AUD.
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A creative and industrious localmaxxer bought a used Dell server from 2012 for $750 AUD. And got it running a 552B-parameter DeepSeek model at nearly 10 tps. Using DDR3 memory, this person got DeepSeek V4.1 Flash running on a Dell PowerEdge R820. Check out the hardware listed on Reddit 🧠 4× Xeon E5-4640 from 2012 💾 768GB DDR3-1333 🎮 Quadro P2200 with just 5GB VRAM ⚙️ AVX1 only — NO AVX2 💰 Reported purchase price → $750 AUD The entire model fits in system RAM. Original llama.cpp 🐌 Decode → 0.43 tps After custom optimization ⚡ Decode → 9.95 tps 23× improvement 📥 Prefill → 101 tps 🚀 Coding
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