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Some apps allow you to offload to GPU, and CPU while loading the active part of the model. I have a an old SSD that give me 500gb of "usable" ram set up as swap.
It is horrendously slow and pointless but you can do it. I got about 2 tokens in 10 minutes before I gave up on a 70b model on a 1080 ti.
Even if they used more powerful hardware than you, the model they ran is still almost 6 times bigger - so if you got two tokens in 10 minutes, one token in 30 minutes for them sounds plausible.
I would have to use an entire 1tb drive for swap but I'm sure I could manage 1 token before the heat death of the universe.
I'd worry less about the heat death of the universe and more about your hardware's heat from all that load.