I inherited a box with dual Xeons and 256 GB of DDR4. I then ran several tests and benchmarks of the hardware with several models.

I've been meaning to write a blog post but well whatever here's the md.

https://gist.github.com/hparadiz/f3596d00a62d8ebb2dadcc46ee5...

Qwen3.5 9B performed best.

You can absolutely still use this to do some basic stuff like tell opencode to convert a video file from one format to another. But frankly you're better off getting two AMD GPUs. Say a dual 7900XT would get way better performance.