we really all are going to make it, aren't we? 2x3090 setup.
Summary
A user shares their experience setting up a dual 3090 GPU system to run the Qwen 3.6 27b model locally, achieving over 100 tokens/second after switching to Ubuntu and using the club-3090 tool with custom patches. They express excitement about the future of local AI.
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