[nightski]

They had it on sale last week for $3999, it will likely happen again. Also if you are willing to buy ASUS/Acer/MSI you can get them cheaper, in the same range as well. Those units are identical (mainboard/ram/chipset/connectivity), they only tend to differ in SSD being offered.

[verdverm]

The more beneficial difference between DGX and OEM Spark is in cooling. DGX has had cooling issue based on user reports.

[nightski]

Only Asus from what I have seen. Acer/Dell units seem to run cooler than the Nvidia unit, by a noticeable margin. That said I bought the OEM units for the Gen 5 4TB SSD and the fact that it was on sale.

[verdverm]

I have ASUS and no thermal issues, not sure if that is what you meant, ambiguity

[cmrdporcupine]

Same here, no issue at all with my ASUS Spark-thing. And back when I was selecting this, I watched a whole video that broke them all down by thermal mgmt and there wasn't anything wrong with the ASUS.

I do wish didn't buy the one that only had the 1TB nVME in it though. It's one of those expensive half-sized dealies, which makes upgrading expensive. Esp now.

[verdverm]

I bought the 1T and then did it again. I don't see the need for more sad on a vllm server, I have dozens of models and quant in that space. If I need more for data, I intend to plug in an old 4T HDD