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An Old Laptop’s Only M.2 Slot Was Used To Hook Up An RX 7900 XT, Achieving 60 Tokens/s In Qwen3.6 27B & 100K Context Window; External Drive Was Used For The OS

An old laptop's M.2 slot was used to connect an RX 7900 XT for running Qwen3.6 27B

The lack of a dedicated GPU on a laptop means you’re fresh out of luck when it comes to running local LLMs on your machine, but an old Lenovo notebook owner didn’t give up because he had one trick up his sleeve; using the available M.2 slot to attach his desktop AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT. Unfortunately, since there was only one slot, the user had to be clever and employ an external drive to boot Windows from. In the end, he achieved his goal of obtaining decent performance in Qwen3.6 27B. Thanks to the RX 7900 XT’s 20GB GDDR6 […]

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