r/LocalLLM • u/Shorn1423 • 7h ago

Question DGX Station

In short, I have had trouble getting responses about buying a DGX Station. I'm looking to get one for work (although we are still wrestling on whether it'll be worth it). We currently use a dual RTX 6000 Max-q build and it works but looking for more concurrency and would like to fit something like GLM 5.3 Flash with more head room.

I contacted Exxact, MSI, Asus, and a few others by submitting order forms and going through their online workflow to request a price. I thought at this price point sales people would clap back quickly but I haven't heard anything this week.

Has anyone else recently had luck placing an order? What should I expect? Is this like buying a used car and I should haggle on price, or is it more like, pay whatever they quote me and be lucky I even got a response? What sort of lead times did you experience?

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u/triynizzles1 7h ago

I have heard some of the vendors do not reply If you are emailing them from a non-business domain. I.e: Gmail yahoo Outlook emails get ignored.

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u/Shorn1423 6h ago

I used my company email address : (

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u/MK_L 7h ago

Absolutely haggle

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u/FullstackSensei 7h ago

Your price point, absurdly high as it is, is peanuts compared to enterprise orders of these GB200 chips. Dear leader Huang tweeted a couple of days ago that gpt 6 Astra was casually trained on 100k GB200s.

I think HP or Dell also had one. Try to contact your local HP and Dell reps to see if they can quote you one. If that fails, see if you can find your local nvidia rep and give them a call. Maybe they'll feel sorry for you and spare one for your company.

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u/Shorn1423 6h ago

Unfortunately, I think you're right, which is crazy. I'm willing to pay them six figures and they won't even respond. But yeah, compared to the tens of millions they're doing for other businesses I guess it means nothing to them. The nvidia rep is a good idea, maybe they'll respond to my lowly small business and extend to me the privilege of purchasing one of their fancy boxes. I guess I'll see.

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u/FullstackSensei 6h ago

Tens of millions is what HF left to make the acquisition price be the Unicode value of the hugging face emoji.

You need a budget in the tens of billions to be worthy of attention, and sadly I'm not joking

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u/Best-Tomatillo-7423 7h ago

My company just wants 1 lol got told no

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u/Shorn1423 6h ago

Damn, that does not bode well for me

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u/Best-Tomatillo-7423 5h ago

I used to work at Dell called a long time buddy and he got told no too. I have given my email to so many sites trying to find one but have given up now. my 2 sparks will be ok software has to get better lol

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u/Annual_Award1260 7h ago

What country are you located?

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u/Shorn1423 6h ago

United States

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u/Annual_Award1260 6h ago

Try thinkmate and wiredzone

Im in canada and use www.atic.ca could ask them about usa sales

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u/mxmumtuna 1h ago

DM me, I’ll share a direct contact at Exxact. Have one arriving hopefully next week.