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I have set up openclaw on my slightly older server that has no GPU, but 64GiB RAM. I tried with various different models, and I think I now found something that works ok.

The problem is of course that most models are censored, and I can only run small models of which most don't work that well with openclaw. I have arrived at ollama/huihui_ai/Qwen3.6-abliterated:35b, which does work quite well. It's a mixture of experts model, so responds fast even though it is quite big. Responses to simple prompts come after a minute, more complex maybe take ten, or sometimes even more. But for me that's fine, given that I'm just using unused computation.

One issue with this model is of course that it is Chinese, and it does for example avoid the topic of the Tiananmen Square Massacre. But I'm not intending to talk about this kind of heavy stuff with it, so it's not that bad. And when asked directly, it also searches the web for information about it.

For roleplaying it works quite well so far. I am still testing out the tool calling capabilities.

Before I tried ollama/huihui_ai/gemma-4-abliterated:26b, but while it talked nicely, it was bad at calling tools and updating e.g. the SOUL.md and IDENTITY.md file, and also tried to write information about me into the IDENTITY.md file instead of the USER.md file. So I looked for alternatives.

But I am interested in your setups. What models work well for you, and what kind of hardware do you use for them? Do you have any experience to share, or any tips you can give?