Chicken-coop shed AI PC
Figured I’d contribute with my chicken-coop adjacent shed AI PC.
Proof1 community thread
Key points
- Saw soneone post their bathroom AI PC a few weeks ago.
- Found a deal on a used Threadripper with a TRX40 motherboard and 256gb DDR4 RAM to host the 4x 170HX.
- Running QFN split between two of the 170HX with capacitor mods and Qwen3.8-27B on the third.
- Just got the 4th 170hx installed today.
Sources (1)
- [1]Chicken-coop shed AI PCr/LocalLLaMA (top, daily) · Oct 15, 04:20 AM
Figured I’d contribute with my chicken-coop adjacent shed AI PC.
Saw soneone post their bathroom AI PC a few weeks ago.
Extractive summary: sentences quoted from the sources.
Before this
- Oct 15, 2026Local and Distributed Large LLM Inference with MLX and RDMA on Mac Studio
- Oct 14, 2026Qwen 3.8 Flash-Next compared to GLM 5.3 Flash
- Oct 14, 2026Tessera-27B-B-CJK, Zellige AIs new finetune of Qwen with novel approaches to how we think about token savings
- Oct 14, 2026New model from Telperion: Qwen3.8-27B-MLA & Qwen3.8-27B-GLA-g2. 4x smaller KV cache, smarter, and more efficient reasoning.
- Oct 14, 2026NVIDIA/TensorRT-LLM v1.4.0rc0
- Oct 13, 2026Run fast, private agents on-device with LFM2.5-24B-A2B