I want to host some LLM’s locally and use more advanced models. Since new hardware is out of the question, I think I should be able to pull something off buying some yesteryear equipment on ebay etc. Did anybody attempt such a project? Does it scale horizontally? (I.e. can I connext two boxes to overcome single box slowness?)
The trend I see are the Mac Minis with a lot of unified memory. These are typically very well off people though. Prices for even old GPUs like 3090s are ridiculous now. I don’t think connecting 2 machines over Ethernet would work well, but putting 2 GPUs in a single machine does.