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This article is a great way to showcase A16Z standinging head and shoulders above other VCs with REAL technical expertise in the partnership. Love reading this kind of stuff, but the article really needs a price to put this in perspective. It would be the VC that would ignore price, lol, but roughing this out it looks like it costs 45k to build this thing. Seems, at first glance, that this is a cost efficient way to dodge buying a Kia Carnival and get a tier-1 GPU workstation..

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The technical expertise of... buying four of the fanciest Nvidia GPU and plugging them into an off-the-shelf motherboard in an off-the-shelf chassis? A serious attempt at this kind of build would use the server variant of the RTX6000 and custom air ducts to cool them efficiently, but they packed four blower coolers like sardines so it no doubt sounds like a screaming jet engine under load.

In all fairness, not even Lambda Labs offers workstations with RTX6000 server variants.

There are no RTX6000 "server" variants. These GPUs are designed for workstation use. I mean it is even in the name.

https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/data-center/rtx-pro-6000-blackw...

The workstation versions are fine if you're running one or maybe two cards with an airflow gap between them, but if you pack four of them right next to each other then you're going to have a bad time when the fans get going.

Ou, I was wrong. Unexpected. Are there (comparatively) a lot of uses for the that card in a server?

Maybe they’re a vibe coder and to them this looks like engineering

Exactly, 4 blower GPUs!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mvBeCSaaDxA

What did you say?? I can't hear you over these blowers!!

It’s a… low bar.

> This article is a great way to showcase A16Z standinging head and shoulders above other VCs with REAL technical expertise in the partnership.

what? a 12 year old with a titanic budget could put this PC together

I don't want to be insulting here, but have you sat down with a partner at a VC before? You may be surprised to discover their skill is rarely deeply technical...

yes, I worked for a VC funded micro startup for 5 years

I was not impressed by any of the partners

(but hey they were better than the PE partners I worked for immediately after)

There's almost 0 skill required to plug in components meant to be plugged in to each other...

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