GoKawiilLawyer upgrades homemade V100 AI server, moves DeepSeek model to 4-bit precision
Nick Mermiges, a South Carolina trial lawyer and founder of PLI Labs, upgraded his private eight-GPU V100 AI server by adding 1TB of RAM and an RTX 3090, shifting roughly 80% of its workload from 2-bit to 4-bit NVFP4 precision. The server runs DeepSeek V4.1 Flash with a custom legal workflow he built using Claude Code, and the upgrade traded some speed—code output dropped from 160–215 to 150–180 tokens per second—for stability, after crashes traced to a faulty power supply were resolved.