Asus is pushing the boundaries with the new ExpertCenter Pro ET900N G3, a regular-looking tower PC that packs Nvidia’s powerful GB300 Grace Blackwell Ultra desktop superchip inside. It’s designed for local AI development, model training, and inference, giving you data-center-level performance without needing an actual server room.
At first glance, it looks like a standard desktop tower (about 23.2 x 58.4 x 56.5 cm), something you could actually fit on a typical desk. But inside, it’s a beast. The system combines a Grace CPU with 72 Arm cores and a Blackwell Ultra GPU, delivering up to 20 petaFLOPS of AI performance.
One of the most impressive parts is the memory: it has a massive 748 GB of unified coherent memory (496 GB LPDDR5X for the CPU + 252 GB HBM3e for the GPU). This setup lets you work with really large AI models, even those approaching trillion-parameter scale, right on your desk.
It also comes with a hefty 1,600W power supply and strong cooling, so it can run at full power for long periods without slowing down. For expansion, you get three PCIe 5.0 slots, support for up to four M.2 2280 NVMe SSDs, and high-speed NVLink-C2C and ConnectX-8 networking. It ships with Ubuntu and Nvidia’s AI tools pre-loaded, with Windows support coming later. On the outside, the ports are practical, with eight USB 3.2 ports, one USB 2.0 port, and dual 10 Gbps Ethernet.
The ExpertCenter Pro ET900N G3 is now available in the US, starting at a hefty $99,999. It’s clearly aimed at researchers, developers, and companies working on generative AI, large language models, simulations, and autonomous systems. It’s basically bringing the spirit of Nvidia’s DGX Station to a more compact form.
This is a clear sign of the trend toward making high-end AI hardware more accessible at the desktop level. Yes, the price is steep, but for teams that need serious local compute power without the hassle of full server setups, this could be a game-changer.
What do you think? Crazy impressive or just too expensive for most people?
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