Introduction
This is a walkthrough of my set up of local LLM capability on a Lenovo ThinkPad P1 Gen 4 (with a RTX A3000 6GB VRAM) graphics card, using Ollamafor CLI and VS Code Copilot chat access, and LM Studio for a GUI option.
My Lenovo ThinkPad P1 Gen 4 is coming up for 4 years old. It is a powerful workstation, and has a good, but by no means state of the art GPU in the RTX A3000. My expectation is that many developers will have a PC capable of running local LLMs as I have set up here.
See the GitHub repository for the full walk through:
https://github.com/gbro3n/local-ai/blob/main/docs/local-llm-setup-windows-ollama-lm-studio.md