Published Oct 25, 2026, 10:30 AM EDT

Ayush Pande is a PC hardware and gaming writer. When he's not working on a new article, you can find him with his head stuck inside a PC or tinkering with a server operating system. Besides computing, his interests include spending hours in long RPGs, yelling at his friends in co-op games, and practicing guitar.

I’ve tested all sorts of wacky LLM setups over the last couple of months, and finding the right balance between performance and accuracy has always been a bit of a problem. Most of my experiments involve outdated GPUs, budget-friendly mini-PCs, and even SBCs like the Raspberry Pi, which is why I always look for ways to enhance the token generation rates without reducing the clankers’ reasoning capabilities.

Unfortunately, not all of my tweaks would hit their mark, and some would even cause my locally-hosted models to go into hallucinated loops.…