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22 August 2026

the 4th card needed a soldering iron

last measurement: 3 cards in pcie 1.1 x16 and the 4th one stuck in a 1.1 x4 slot. the x4 lane was holding the whole box back, so i pulled that card out and soldered it into a 1.1 x16 slot.

22 August 2026

qwen3.8 27b on $500 of scrap

qwen3.8 27b — q8 weights, f16 kv cache — doing 200 t/s of prompt processing and 30 t/s of generation on one box of $500 scrap. no gpu in sight.