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Quantization – Fitting a Giant in a Small Box

A technical look at the "shrinking" process (converting 16-bit files to 4-bit or 8-bit) that allows massive models to run on consumer-grade hardware.

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The Hardware Check – Can Your PC Handle It?

A high-level guide to the "Big Three" requirements—VRAM, System RAM, and Storage—and how to audit your current specs for local LLM.

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The VRAM Bottleneck – Why the GPU is King

A deeper dive into Video RAM (VRAM), explaining why your graphics card’s memory is the single most important factor for speed and model size for local LLM.

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