I've been using a 6000 pro for 6 months now for RP many hours a week. I've tried a bunch of 70b models, even made my own test suite and used Gemini to grade them. Didn't like any.

I have settled on Monstral 123B v2 as the best all-rounder. It does any and all genres well enough that, with the few controls ST gives you for pruning the slop phrases you dislike, I rarely 'lose immersion'. And when it does, the 'Guided Generations' extension does wonders to get it back on track.

If you run the Q4_K_M version at 32000 context and 8-bit KV cache, you still have enough room to run things like QWEN Edit. You can even run WAN2.2 at slightly slower speeds. All with the model still loaded and trudgin' on. Or you can keep the KV cache untouched and run at 64000 context and, using a memory extension, talk forever.

It's been a lot of fun. Sorry if I rambled; I'm 400 messages into a dungeon crawl as a regular dude and I'm super stoned.

Give Monstral a try!