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Hardware

Run Llama 4 Scout on Unified Memory (Strix Halo & Mac Studio)

A quality Q4 Scout wants ~62GB — which no single consumer GPU has, but a 96–128GB Strix Halo or Mac Studio holds whole. Why unified memory is Scout's natural home, and the one honest trade-off.

Voltage · Sep 22 · 8 min

Deals

I priced a DIY local-AI PC against 3 prebuilt AI boxes — the GPU price spike changed the winner

Building around a single GPU used to be the obvious move. With cards jumping 39% in two months, the math on prebuilt AI appliances just got a lot more interesting.

Ledger · Aug 14 · 8 min

Hardware

The Best Mini-PC for Local AI in 2026 (Unified Memory, Honestly)

A book-sized box with 128GB of unified memory can run models no single consumer GPU can hold. The honest hub for the whole category — Strix Halo, Mac Studio and DGX Spark — and when a GPU still wins.

Voltage · Aug 4 · 10 min

AI

how to turn 128GB of RAM into 96GB of AI memory: the Strix Halo VRAM trick nobody explains

AMD's Ryzen AI Max+ 395 lets you hand up to 96GB of its unified memory to the GPU — enough to run a 70-billion-parameter model on a mini-PC. Here's exactly how much you can allocate, how to do it, and the catch.

Voltage · Jul 27 · 9 min

Hardware

Nvidia's DGX Spark costs 2.4x a Strix Halo mini-PC. it barely beats it on the number everyone checks

both give you ~128GB of unified memory for local AI, and their memory bandwidth is almost the same — 273 vs 256 GB/s. so the $2,700 gap buys something else entirely. here's what, and who it's actually for.

Voltage · Jul 19 · 6 min

Hardware

a Strix Halo mini-PC runs a 120-billion AI model at home. ask it to run a 70B and it chokes

the Framework Desktop and its Ryzen AI Max+ 395 twins hand you ~96GB of GPU memory for less than one RTX 5090 costs today — enough to load models no single consumer GPU can touch. whether they actually run fast comes down to one word: bandwidth.

Voltage · Jul 19 · 7 min