User builds MoE-centric workstation at about half DGX Spark price

A user shared a MoE-focused workstation build with an AMD EPYC 7452, Gigabyte MZ32 board, 32GB Radeon AI PRO R9700, and 256GB RAM. The builder says it cost roughly half a DGX Spark and is meant for experiments with Qwen4.

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