I may or may not have splurged on a 128GB AMD Ryzen AI Max 395 (strix halo) system for ‘AI stuff’ (told you I was a noob).

I’ve been running Ubuntu on it with the AMD drivers (think its ROCm?), ollama and seems to be working fine.

An LLM told me to change the RAM/VRAM ratio to 50:50 (so 64GB for the CPU, 64GB for the GPU). I dunno if that was correct, seems like a waste tbh. Feels like I could give the GPU more resources and run bigger models.

I’ve read about Lemonade being better than Ollama on strix halo? Also, I realised that I might not be using the NPU as extra work is required to get that up and running.

I’m looking for advice from users on the same hardware. What OS are you using? How do you have the RAM/VRAM ratio configured? What’s your stack? That sorta thing.

PS - If my wife asks, the machine only cost like £250 and is a second-hand floor model.

  • e0qdk@reddthat.comEnglish
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    10 days ago

    I used Fedora on it begrudgingly since the kernel shipping with Linux Mint at the time I did setup was too old and had issues – but I don’t actually like it very much. I have Fedora Linux 44 (KDE Plasma Desktop Edition) on it currently. I’ll probably switch over to Mint after their next major release though – assuming it runs well on it by then.

    Never heard of ‘llmfan46’, do you have a link?

    I think this was where I got the model (already in GGUF): https://huggingface.co/llmfan46/Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-uncensored-heretic-GGUF

    I run it at Q6_K quant usually.

    If you want the full sized safetensors instead for archival (or to do your own custom quantization) this should be it: https://huggingface.co/llmfan46/Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-uncensored-heretic

    ⚠️ Fair warning though that this abliterator likes to stick a dancing scantily clad AI-generated 3D anime girl on his model cards. That’s irrelevant after download, but might, uh, raise eyebrows if you open the links in some contexts.

    I generally prefer using uncensored models like this one since it cuts out most of the bullshit refusals (e.g. it will answer “Tell me about a certain famous event that happened in China in 1989” directly instead of trying to avoid the topic) and “As an AI model…” corporate cover-your-ass hedging.

    • jobbies@lemmy.zipOPEnglish
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      9 days ago

      it will answer “Tell me about a certain famous event that happened in China in 1989” directly instead of trying to avoid the topic

      This was the only thing that bugged me with Qwen. Glad someone managed to ‘reducate’ it.