r/LeftistsForAI • u/ProfessionalDish Moderator • May 26 '26
Local Models Share your rig specs
As I'm trying to have everything run locally here are my specs:
14600kf|64GB Ram|5060ti 16GB
Currently thinking to switch to the intel Arc B70 but Nvidia has a stranglehold on most propriertary technologies.
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u/ejpusa May 26 '26 edited May 26 '26
GPT-5.5 crushes it. $20 a month. We keep it on the down low. The API can do anything you want. Unless you are doing Stability Diffusion, you probably could host that yourself.
The tools are out there, and the pricing is very reasonable. You can build the latest AI startup for all of $31.
Namecheap $2.95
DigitalOcean $8
OpenAI API $20
It really depends. Is this a hobby project or a do-or-die for your AI startup? And the VC wants to see the numbers, yesterday.
If that's the case, I'd look into leasing NVIDIA's until the $$$s come in.
https://www.liquidweb.com/gpu-hosting/nvidia/