# Creating a custom homelab machine for LLM usage on a budget

> Source: <https://forum.level1techs.com/t/creating-a-custom-homelab-machine-for-llm-usage-on-a-budget/256645#post_4>
> Published: 2026-09-21 05:49:50+00:00

With My current setup, I have Been using mostly Mistral 7b and deepseek-r1 8b. But in The cloud, mostly Mistral large.

Currently mostly helping with software debugging

The Arc Pro b60 is around 900e

AMD Radeon R9700 32gb around 1800e

NVIDIA Tesla v100 around 740e

W7800 32gb around 2200rtx 3090 around 1400e

And My apologies, still trying to figure out our use case.