Build-Guide
Building a Distributed AI Swarm for Under $1,100
A complete bill of materials for a three-node distributed AI cluster: RTX 3090 workstation, ThinkCentre M710Q for light inference, Raspberry Pi 5 coordinator. Every part sourced used or cheap, total cost under $1,100.
Used Optiplex + RTX 3060 = Local AI for Under $450 (Full Build)
$100 used Optiplex, $180 RTX 3060 12GB, done. Runs 14B LLMs at 25 tokens/sec and Stable Diffusion out of the box. Complete parts list, where to buy cheap, assembly photos, and first benchmarks.