We are building a 192GB (2x 96GB) Blackwell Pro 6000 server. It deserves a beautiful case. What should we use?

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Hello. Every word of this post was written entirely by me, a human, with no AI involvement. Any slop is mine.

blackwell_tart and associates will be receiving two 96GB workstation pro 6000 GPUs at the end of the week. We are not here to discuss the purpose to which the GPUs will be put, please accept our apologies for this omission. Needs must.

Instead we are here to consider the notion that such sleek and elegant GPUs deserve a sleek and elegant home, and to that effect we are soliciting advice pertaining to aesthetically beautiful enclosures or open frames. This is not a request for mid-towers from Amazon. This is a request for the kind of work delivered slowly by an old-time lathe worker who creates pieces of functional art that make a Mitchel Gyrodec look like a child's lego piece.

Ali Express is also fine.

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Based on our own experiences and those documented by fellow LocalLLama enthusiasts, we are building the following configuration. The final piece was to find a reliable source for GPUs, a matter that is now resolved.

  • Motherboard: Gigabyte MZ33-AR1 rev3: It has 4x PCIe 5.0 x16 slots. The GPUs will not physically fit in the slots because the design of the motherboard is such the the CPU cooler and RDIMMs interfere. Risers are therefore required.
  • Risers: Linkup AVA5 risers.
  • CPU: AMD EPYC 9745
  • Cooler: SilverStone XED120 WS
  • RAM: 768GB 6400 MT/s DDR5 RAM in 12x 64GB modules. The motherboard supports 12 DDR5 channels with up to 24 RDIMMs and we may expand to 1.5TB in future, depending on requirements yet to be determined.
  • PSU: 2kW 240V e-ATX.
  • SSDs: 2x 4TB Samsung 9100 Pro SSD in RAID0 striped configuration. One SSD is mounted in the motherboard's m2 socket, the other SSD is mounted in a [MCIO -> u2 -> m2] (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DJMWWX27) adapter, all of which is PCIe 5.0 x4.

We think it will be quite fast. We would like it to be equally beautiful. We are old school. We prefer das blinkenlights to LED lights. We shall post pics. We shall not gtfo.

How should we dress our new creation?

Posted Jul 9, 2025, 11:16 PM UTC

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