[viklas]

Agree - we crunched the numbers and came up with the same figures to do-it-yourself (~USD$9K). Although, I remember from the day this was announced (few months back) that Nvidia were loud-and-proud that they weren't going to make money from this. Each box was hand built and tested, so not deemed to be a large-scale device - they recognized that it's a niche market.

$15K is probably OK(ish) if you figure in your own time for the DIY build...probably a few days. Plus you get some vendor support, warranty on the whole package, certified working stack, future test-bed for CUDA updgrades (will work first), etc as you say.

In wild agreement. Save maybe 30% doing a custom build...so they aren't adding a huge mark-up, as they would for a gaming machine. Apparently...someone at Nvidia is looking a bit further into the future than just the short-term revenue.