QWEN 3 235b BEST Local Ai Beats DEEPSEEK R1 671b

Tested Qwen 3 235b local AI on 3 rigs: the quad 3090 rig, the Threadripper 7995WX rig, and the $500 Z440 rig. Results were....thinking.....thinking....tune in to find out how this LLM in real world and benchmarking tests. As good as or Better than Deepseek R1?

Poll 1 - This is a CAT: http://youtube.com/post/Ugkx_GPFWSH6m6mJYmPtWLumV4LdKX1Es8mf?si=in5WOyGit9h2FHqj

Poll 2 - Armageddon with a Twist: http://youtube.com/post/Ugkx19eoGaw6sXp4Aje7Rhf560lB1elE7D5j?si=SMUK1CdAaRPtsJYN

QUAD 3090 AI HOME SERVER BUILD

GPU Rack Frame https://geni.us/GPU_Rack_Frame

Supermicro H12ssl-i MOBO (better option vs mz32-ar0) https://geni.us/MBD_H12SSL-I-O

Gigabyte MZ32-AR0 MOBO https://geni.us/mz32-ar0_motherboard

AMD 7V13 (newer, faster vs 7702) https://geni.us/EPYC_7V13_CPU

RTX 3090 24GB GPU (x4) https://geni.us/GPU3090

256GB (8x32GB) DDR4 2400 RAM https://geni.us/256GB_DDR4_RAM

PCIe4 Risers (x4) https://geni.us/PCIe4_Riser_Cable

AMD SP3 Air Cooler (easier vs water cooler) https://geni.us/EPYC_SP3_COOLER

iCUE H170i water cooler https://geni.us/iCUE_H170i_Capellix

(sTRX4 fits SP3 and retention kit comes with the CAPELLIX)

CORSAIR HX1500i PSU https://geni.us/Corsair_HX1500iPSU

4i SFF-8654 to 4i SFF-8654 (x4, not needed for H12SSL-i) https://geni.us/SFF8654_to_SFF8654

ARCTIC MX4 Thermal Paste https://geni.us/Arctic_ThermalPaste

Kritical Thermal GPU Pads https://geni.us/Kritical-Thermal-Pads

HDD Rack Screws for Fans https://geni.us/HDD_RackScrews

$500 Deepseek/Qwen 3 AI SERVER

HP Z440 https://geni.us/HP_Z440

I did run against the E5-2696 v4, read about that on the site in more depth

CPU - Intel Xeon E5-2650 v4 https://geni.us/Xeon-E5-2650-V4

CPU - Intel Xeon E5-2696 v4 https://geni.us/E5-2696-V4

I think it is advisable to hit between 32GB to 64GB RAM in 4 channels to max sys bw

RAM - DDR4 LARGE GB https://geni.us/512GB-DDR4-LRDIMM

RAM - 2400 SMALLER GB https://geni.us/DDR4-RAM-ECC-2400

1TB EVO 870 SSD https://geni.us/evo-870-ssd-1TB

Other HP Cheap Workstation Options

HP Z640 https://geni.us/HP_Z640

HP Z840 https://geni.us/HP_Z840

AMD Threadripper Pro 7995wx BUILD:

CPU - AMD Threadripper 7995wx https://geni.us/AMD_TR_PRO_7995WX

Or: 7975WX TR PRO (Much cheaper, still insane chip) https://geni.us/AMD_TR_PRO_7975WX

GPU - ASUS Pro 4090 OC https://geni.us/4090_OC_White

Case - Fractal Meshify 2 XL https://geni.us/FractalMeshify_2XLCase

Motherboard - ASUS WRX90E-Sage SE https://geni.us/WRX90E-SAGE_Pro_Mobo

RAM - DDR5 128GB x2 (total 256GB) https://geni.us/128GB_DDR5-6400

PSU - Seasonic PX-1600 ATX 3.0 1600W https://geni.us/Seasonic_PRIME_PX-1600

Storage - Crucial T705 4TB NVMe Gen 5 https://geni.us/T705_4TB_NVMe

CPU Cooler - Noctua NH-D9 TR5-SP6 4U https://geni.us/Noctua_NH-D9_TR5-SP6

Noctua NF-A9 PWM https://geni.us/Noctua_NF-A9_PWM

LOCAL AI SERVER BUILD WRITEUPS

High End AI Server https://digitalspaceport.com/local-ai-home-server-build-at-high-end-5000-price/

Mid Range Ai Server https://digitalspaceport.com/local-ai-home-server-build-at-mid-range-750-price/

$500 Deepseek R1 671B on a Z440 https://digitalspaceport.com/500-deepseek-r1-671b-local-ai-server/

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Chapters

0:00 Qwen 3 235b Review

5:10 Qwen 3 235b Benchmark

7:14 Local LLM Testing Questions

10:00 Armageddon with a Twist

12:31 Qwen 3 Parsing Test

13:10 Arbitrary Arrays

14:54 Qwen 3 Game Code One shot

18:10 Pico de Gato

19:06 Parsing Peppermints

20:54 100 Digits of Pi

21:44 Qwen 3 Creative SVG Test

23:30 Two Driver Problem

24:38 Qwen 3 235b Conclusion

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