Real benchmarks. Real hardware. Real costs.
Run AI at home, practically.
GPU benchmarks, local LLM tutorials, ComfyUI workflows, and self-hosted AI guides for the home lab crowd. Tested on the cards you can actually buy.
What we cover
Four corners of the home AI lab.
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GPU Benchmarks
Real numbers for Stable Diffusion, Flux, ComfyUI, and local LLMs across the cards normal humans can afford.
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Local LLM Tutorials
Step-by-step Ollama, llama.cpp, LM Studio, and quantized model picks that fit your VRAM, not a datacenter's.
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ComfyUI & Image Gen
Workflows that work, LoRA training on limited VRAM, and node setups without the YouTube guesswork.
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Self-Hosted Stack
Open WebUI, n8n automations, privacy-first infra. Your data, your hardware, your rules.
Latest posts
Fresh from the bench.
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Best Local LLM for Every RTX 50-Series GPU in 2026: Model, Quant, and Tok/s to Target on Each Card
From the RTX 5060 8GB to the RTX 5090 32GB — which local LLM and quant fits each Blackwell card, the realistic tokens/sec to expect, and why the GDDR7 shortage broke the price ladder.
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ComfyUI Stuck on "Reconnecting"? It's Not Your Network — Read the Terminal (2026)
The red Reconnecting banner means your browser lost the WebSocket to the Python backend, and the backend almost always crashed first. Here's how to find why — OOM, custom nodes, or port conflicts — and fix each one.
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Apple M7 AI Chips in 2026: Should Home Lab Mac Buyers Wait or Buy M5 Now?
Apple is reportedly skipping the high-end M6 for an AI-focused M7 line. Here's what that timeline means for local AI Mac buyers — and why you shouldn't wait.
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Ollama Slow? How to Get More Tokens per Second From the GPU You Already Have (2026)
Five settings that actually move Ollama's tokens/sec — flash attention, KV cache quantization, num_ctx, num_batch, and keep_alive — with real defaults and the numbers behind each one.
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Microsoft Aion 1.0 on Windows 2026: The 14B On-Device Model and What Your Copilot+ PC Actually Needs
Microsoft Aion 1.0 puts a 14B reasoning model in Windows, but it needs a 40-TOPS NPU. Here's which Copilot+ PCs qualify and how it compares to Ollama on a GPU.
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