I switched to a local LLM for these 5 tasks and the cloud version hasn’t been worth it since.
When you pay for an AI subscription every month, you expect reliability, speed, and enough value to justify the bill. But for a growing number of everyday workflows, a local large language model can...
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Wierd problem here guys
Quick specs
Phenom II x4 3.2ghz
4gb DDR2 800
PC use to run flawless. Very fast. During idle it would use only 1gb/4gb of ram which is normal
Now it uses 3gb at idle! At startup it will be at 1gb, but after I run a memory intense application (Starcraft 2 which uses 2gb...