the landing page showed "$3,299.00" and I had my candy store moment for a few secs.
rkagerer•1h ago
What motherboard do they use? (Or do they design their own now?)
xeeeeeeeeeeenu•58m ago
The ASUS logo is visible in the photo of the innards.
embedding-shape•51m ago
I'm guessing it'll depend on the GPU (and CPU) choice, putting the cheapest that is sufficient for the choice.
arjie•56m ago
Haha, bloody hell, mate. $17k a pop? I bought these for $8k-ish. That's bonkers to buy this when newer flash models won't fit on this any more. DeepSeek V4 Flash seems the last in its line, and then you have to count on Qwen Next. Seems like a waste honestly.
embedding-shape•55m ago
Seems they might be selling a combo of dual RTX Pro 6000 workstation cards (non-refundable), but the setup they have, unless they change how the GPUs cooling work, isn't gonna work out thermally if you stack two of those workstation cards on top of each other. But it doesn't say WS or "Workstation", so I suppose could be the server variant too? But also doesn't say...
Hope they have good overall cooling the case, cooling doesn't seem to be mentioned, it'll be a noisy little machine no doubt :)
rkagerer•40m ago
Page mentions liquid cooling, for what it's worth.
wmf•26m ago
They're blower cards and there's a big gap between them so the cooling looks fine.
embedding-shape•24m ago
So the two variants they offer is the Max-Q and the Server edition one, but only explicitly mentioned for one?
lxe•41m ago
I thought it was a pricing mistake. But no, you just have to select the variations.
$42,412.00
mcbuilder•17m ago
I had to do a double take myself, scrolled down and arrived at a similar number.
Wish I built this a few years ago!
felixfurtak•8m ago
Me three
senectus1•38m ago
wouldnt you be better off maxing out the new Mac hardware? the memory bandwidth is insane on those jobbies
wmf•28m ago
Two RTX 6000 have more FLOPS and more memory bandwidth than a M5 Ultra (but they also cost more).
bigyabai•10m ago
If your goal is pure GPU compute, you should have got a 5090. It can bench comparable to the RTX 6000 Pro cards and is near guaranteed to outperform M5 Ultra.
cherioo•18m ago
This makes Mac Studio with 256GB memory look cheap in comparison. More memory to store weight at a quarter of the price!
thom•13m ago
I remember losing sleep when I bought my RTX Pro 6000, but somehow they keep going up in price, and waddya know I’ve even done real work that appreciates the VRAM size.
nullbio•9m ago
New car or a Thelio. Tough decision.
LoganDark•7m ago
Is it more powerful than Apple silicon, or why would anyone buy this? Just for Linux?
Oh, it's System76, that's why. Open hardware. Makes sense.
bitbasher•1h ago
mandeepj•57m ago