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$7,000 PC for local AI models, part by part

An Intel Core Ultra 7 270K Plus with the GeForce RTX 5090, and the 6 parts around them that fit it: $7,071 all in.

Language and image models on your own card. Every part here was checked against every other for fit, and picked for video memory first, then card speed, then system memory. A price marked Amazon US is ScoutPrices' reading of the listing its button opens, dated; the rest are typical prices. Not a checkout total: no operating system, shipping, tax, screen, keyboard or mouse.

The Intel Core Ultra 7 270K Plus and the GeForce RTX 5090 are well matched at 1440p.

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Flagship

$7,071 of $7,000

The ASRock B860 Challenger WiFi White goes onto the Montech Air 903 Max's tray: ATX, B860, nine standoffs.

The Intel Core Ultra 7 270K Plus drops into the LGA1851 socket, lever down: 24 cores, up to 5.5 GHz.

The Arctic Liquid Freezer III Pro 360's block sits on the chip and its 360 mm radiator bolts to the roof; rated 330 W against 250 W.

Two sticks of Crucial Pro 64GB (2x32GB) DDR5-6000 CL40 White click into the second and fourth slots: 64 GB at 6000 MT/s.

The Kingston NV3 2TB screws into the first M.2 slot under the card.

The GeForce RTX 5090 slides into the x16 slot and latches: 330 mm in a case that takes 400 mm, 32 GB of memory.

The Thermaltake Toughpower GF3 1200W goes into the basement, 1200 W for a build that draws about 1100 W flat out, one native 16-pin cable to the card.

Side panel on, 4 case fans spinning. Fit for the job: 92 of 100.

Build order

Eight steps, the way a builder works through the case. $6,978 all in.

ASRock B860 Challenger WiFi White on the tray
Core Ultra 7 270K Plus in the socket
Arctic Liquid Freezer III Pro 360 on top
2 sticks of memory
Kingston NV3 2TB on the board
RTX 5090 in the x16 slot
1200 W supply in the basement
Panel on, power on

Illustration built from this build's parts: the case's card and cooler clearances, the board's size, the card's length, the cooler, the memory sticks, the supply. Shapes are generic, not the products' own.

PartScore for the jobPrice

ProcessorIntel Core Ultra 7 270K Plus

Highest AI & local models score the budget allows next to this card: 24 cores, boosts to 5.5 GHz.

2 swaps that still fit