Ok, how are people powering these things? 2.4kW is well beyond a standard circuit in the US. Are people having 240V/30A circuits installed? Are they hijacking the dryer plugs? EV charger plugs? Hottub circuits?
4× RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell on Water, and the One Card That Wouldn't Behave
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Re: 4× RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell on Water, and the One Card That Wouldn't Behave
#22Ok, how are people powering these things? 2.4kW is well beyond a standard circuit in the US. Are people having 240V/30A circuits installed? Are they hijacking the dryer plugs? EV charger plugs? Hottub circuits?
Re: 4× RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell on Water, and the One Card That Wouldn't Behave
#23What a time to be alive, I remember 10 years ago as a poor student waiting to buy a ATI Radeon X1600 Pro with 256mb, yes 256mb of RAM. It cost about £190 in 2006. Now we have GPUs that are in tens of thousands of pounds with insane performance, but what would their price be without the AI and Datacentre squeeze?
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#25What a time to be alive, I remember 10 years ago as a poor student waiting to buy a ATI Radeon X1600 Pro with 256mb, yes 256mb of RAM. It cost about £190 in 2006. Now we have GPUs that are in tens of thousands of pounds with insane performance, but what would their price be without the AI and Datacentre squeeze?
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#26Something went wrong in manufacturing. The solder should have wicked to cover the entire pad, not just a small square, and there should be no (brown) discoloration.
Re: 4× RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell on Water, and the One Card That Wouldn't Behave
#27The phrasing is very claude like:
"That cracked joint is the whole story. The card had passed initial bring-up and ran fine at light loads for a week."
"That sequencing matters — it’s why we have a story to tell. The pilot card failed, taught us a lesson, and the lesson is the reason the other three went on without incident."
"Driver swaps, CUDA reinstalls, and inference-engine theories were dead ends I spent hours on. The failure pattern itself told the story — listen to it earlier."
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#29AI slop post.
I picked up on it too, this wouldn't have been something difficult to share but it's far too verbose to be a real person's words in this way.