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can it run

Can the Minisforum MS-S1 Max (128GB) run DEEPSEEK-R1 distill 14B?

YES

Comfortably. 128GB of memory against a 12GB working set leaves headroom for context, the OS, and anything else you're running.

~17–24 tok/s

weights 9GB + KV cache 0.75GB at 4k context vs ~126GB usable → full. 9.8 GB needed of 126 GB usable — headroom for context

computed roofline: 256 GB/s × 0.60–0.85 efficiency window / 9.0GB (Q4_K_M) — bands, never points.

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Specs

model file9.0GB (GGUF Q4_K_M)
minimum memory12GB working set
this machine128GB LPDDR5x
paramsdistill 14B
licensemit
price$2581

Run it

model files: hugging face ↗

easy run: ollama pull deepseek-r1:14b

runs with: ollama · llama.cpp · koboldcpp · lm studio

Alternatives

ASUS ExpertCenter Pro ET900N G3 (GB300) — this model on the biggest machine

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