{"id":23435,"date":"2026-10-26T12:03:36","date_gmt":"2026-10-26T12:03:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hlrnet.com\/sites\/ai\/?p=23435"},"modified":"2026-10-26T12:03:36","modified_gmt":"2026-10-26T12:03:36","slug":"i-decided-my-10-year-old-mini-pc-hadnt-suffered-enough-so-i-made-it-run-a-local-llm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hlrnet.com\/sites\/ai\/?p=23435","title":{"rendered":"I decided my 10-year-old mini PC hadn\u2019t suffered enough, so I made it run a local LLM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I decided my 10-year-old mini PC hadn\u2019t suffered enough, so I made it run a local LLM<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.makeuseof.com\/my-old-mini-pc-hadnt-suffered-enough-so-i-made-it-run-a-local-llm\/\" class=\"autohyperlink\">www.makeuseof.com\/my-old-mini-pc-hadnt-suffered-enough-so-i-made-it-run-a-local-llm\/<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>My smallest model made some surprisingly big mistakes. Larger models improved the answers, but I still need to checked them<\/li>\n<li>I ran out of patience before I ran out of RAM. The models fit comfortably, but short answers could take minutes<\/li>\n<li>I\u2019m retiring this setup, but I\u2019m just getting started with local AI. The Zotac helped me decide whether better hardware would be worth exploring<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I decided my 10-year-old mini PC hadn\u2019t suffered enough, so I made it run a local LLM <a href=\"http:\/\/www.makeuseof.com\/my-old-mini-pc-hadnt-suffered-enough-so-i-made-it-run-a-local-llm\/\" class=\"autohyperlink\">www.makeuseof.com\/my-old-mini-pc-hadnt-suffered-enough-so-i-made-it-run-a-local-llm\/<\/a> My smallest model made some surprisingly big mistakes. Larger models improved the answers, but I still need to checked them I ran out of patience before I ran out of RAM. The<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":"","_wp_rev_ctl_limit":""},"categories":[5,30],"tags":[812],"class_list":["post-23435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-en","category-how-it-works","tag-local"],"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hlrnet.com\/sites\/ai\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23435","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hlrnet.com\/sites\/ai\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hlrnet.com\/sites\/ai\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hlrnet.com\/sites\/ai\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hlrnet.com\/sites\/ai\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23435"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hlrnet.com\/sites\/ai\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23435\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23436,"href":"https:\/\/hlrnet.com\/sites\/ai\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23435\/revisions\/23436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hlrnet.com\/sites\/ai\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hlrnet.com\/sites\/ai\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hlrnet.com\/sites\/ai\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}