can it run
Comfortably. 8GB of memory against a 4GB working set leaves headroom for context, the OS, and anything else you're running.
| model file | 1.4GB (GGUF Q4_K_M) |
| minimum memory | 4GB working set |
| this machine | 8GB GDDR6, 448 GB/s |
| params | 1.7B |
| license | apache-2.0 |
| price | $275 |
easy run: ollama pull qwen3:1.7b
runs with: ollama · llama.cpp · koboldcpp · lm studio
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