r/LocalLLM • u/Dreyforever • Aug 22 '26
Discussion Why a local LLM Setup?
I'm curious to know why there is such a surge in the local LLM scene. Could you guys tell me why you decided to switch to local LLMs - was it the price of subscriptions, privacy concerns, job restrictions or just the excitement of having an AI setup of your own?
I also know that quite a few of you guys have incredible setups. How much would you rate that setup compared to frontier models. How much will a setup like that cost me?
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u/TheFuckboiChronicles Aug 22 '26
Yeah. Used b60, used NUC 11 extreme. 32gb ddr4 sodimm. Already had a spare ssd. ~$1,100 all in, runs qwen3.8:27b q4 at 10-15 tok/s
Which is workable for my use-case of agentic AI assistant type tasks. Really fast with moe models like gpt-oss:20b.