Re:Qwen3.6-35B-A3B: Agentic Coding Power, Now Open to All
by zozbot234 on Thursday April 16, 2026 @11:52AM
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You could fit your HEDT with minimum RAM and a combination of Optane storage (for swapping system RAM with minimum wear) and fast NAND (for offloading large read-only data). If you have abundant physical PCIe slots it ought to be feasible.
Re:Qwen3.6-35B-A3B: Agentic Coding Power, Now Open to All
by mjsabby on Thursday April 23, 2026 @12:52AM
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I've joined the B70 bandwagon as well, and have started profiling, will keep this thread updated. I suspect if we get enough of us to get even 80% of theoretical perf we'll be in a good spot. I also have two B70s.
Right now I'm only able to run them in PCI-e 5.0 x8 which might not be sufficient. But, a cheap older Xeon or TR seems silly since PCI-e 4.0 x16 isn't theoretically more bandwidth than PCI-e 5.0 x8. So it seems like if that is really still bottlenecked, I'll just have to bite the bullet and set up a modern HEDT build. With RAM prices... I am not sure there is a world where it could ever be worth it. At that point, seems like you may as well go for an obscenely priced NVIDIA or AMD datacenter card instead and retrofit it with consumer friendly thermal solutions. So... I'm definitely a bit conflicted.
I do like the Arc Pro B70 so far. Its not a performance monster, but it's quiet and relatively low power, and I haven't run into any instability. (The AMDGPU drivers have made amazing strides, but... The stability is not legendary. :)
I'll have to do a bit of analysis and make sure there really is an interconnect bottleneck first, versus a PEBKAC. Could be dropping more lanes than expected for one reason or another too.