I bought a datacenter GPU that doesn’t fit in a normal motherboard, macgyvered the fan with jumper wires, and now I’m running a model that ties with Claude Sonnet 4.6 on benchmarks, all for £200.

Upgraded to WiFi 7 expecting 1.7 Gbps speeds. Got 400 Mbps instead. Here’s what was actually wrong and how I fixed it.

IntelliJ kept saying “Failed to connect” to my Ollama instance while curl worked perfectly. Here’s what actually broke and the one-line fix.