DeepSeek (running locally)

Has anybody got any experience with setting up DeepSeek to run on their local machine? What kind of specs do you need? In terms of GPU and RAM etc… Thanks.

There are a few videos on YT currently about running the model (there also seems to be distilled one using less hardware), here is one with the full 671B parameters:

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Thanks. I only have a very cheap laptop. It doesn’t have much RAM and possibly doesn’t even have a separate graphics card at all. It is also running low on disk space. My problem is that I keep getting “Server Busy” errors on the website. I need DeepSeek-R1 for mathematical reasoning. Do you know if there are any other cloud servers that I can use? Or can I pay for a premium service? Thanks again.

EDIT: I have found this one:

Does anybody have experience with this, or any other premium services?

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