I figure I will make a short video of putting this jank. You'll see why it's jank blackwell rig together. So, I just got the full power. This is the
PNY, so it's the 600 watt one. It is not the Max Q. I think the Max Q is way better looking, but you'll see the case and you'll see why I'm not really
concerned with aesthetics. Additionally to that, I do have an old DDR4 i7 12700 motherboard here
that is going to be used at least for now. I think it has like 32 gigs of DDR4. So, uh we'll work around that. And then I got some C- Sonic 1300 watt
PSU. For now, it should perform sufficiently for the task. But the most exciting thing that I do have to show is the case. So, obviously, in a build
like this, the case is the most important consideration. You're going to need something that has good
air flow and is also big enough to accommodate what is inevitably going to be a pretty beefy PSU, which I do have. Should probably use a box knife for
this and not an X-acto knife. Now, this is a case I've had my eye on for quite a long time. I've not found a use case for one. Get it? Um,
I'm quite pleased to introduce the case that this machine is going to reside from within, which is none other than the vintage Silverstone like retro
thing. I really I've since the day I saw one of these, I wanted one. But I've had nothing to actually put in one. So, I refrained from buying one cuz
it would just sit in its box. But, I'm happy today to finally have something to put in. This thing
is sick. This isn't like sponsored or anything. I literally I just went and bought all this myself cuz I wanted it. But this case is sick. I'm a
sucker for retro PCs. So, this thing is like it has the fake floppies and like a that's inevitably the power button. All right. Next up, I guess I
should put the I don't know. We'll see. All right. I'll probably unbox the rest of the stuff and then we'll
install everything. I'll do the PSU next cuz it's boring. This is of course the 80 plus titanium. So that means All right. I don't think I've ever
seen a Oh, okay. It's got its own like labeled. There's a ton of cables in here, which I'm happy to see. I should probably have another camera angle.
So, I'm going to use my RG phone for the B-roll. So, if it just looks like garbage, uh, that's because
this camera is kind of garbage. But the rest of the phone is quite nice. All right. I set up another camera. So, it's actually visible because I did
want to highlight the nice PSU pouch that this came in. Not seen this before, but I think this is the most expensive PSU I've ever purchased. So, if
you level up, you also get your PSU in a pouch.
That's awesome. It's a shame no one will ever see it. This looks pretty sick though, right? Prime CIC. And this is a 1300 watt. It's got that fresh
PSU smell that we all know and love. All right. Uh for now, I will probably just put the cables back in here. Move this out of the way. Good. Does
have a lot of zip ties and it also has like some fabric ties and things. That's nice to see. And now for
the main event, we have our PNY 6000. I do have to be careful not to damage the box because once I'm done with this video, I'm of course going to
return this. Just doing it for the clout. Really nice quality box for the price you're spending. It really It's like Uline's cheapest box. All right,
I cracked myself up often. All right, the slow reveal. You've seen it before. I have. Oh, never mind.
Okay, let's try that again. The slow reveal. You've seen it before. I have. There we go. All right. It's actually like It's not as big as you would
think compared to like a 5090 is significantly larger, I do believe, than this. It's narrow, too. It's Yeah. I mean, don't get me wrong, like, it's
dense, but it's be good. Security seal. Make sure it's not broken. Sometimes people buy stuff like this
and like there's like rocks in the box. So, I'm happy that this is not one of those cases. Although, this is quite the security seal.
Now, in my humble, non-professional opinion, I would have liked to have had like a cover over the contacts like you may see on like significantly
cheaper Intel cards, like the base model Intel Arc cards have those, but you know, we do have protection over the labels and things like that. It says
Nvidia on it. I just touched the contacts cuz didn't bother to protect them. And this is a two fan
card. Cool. I mean, cool. Let's just put this to the side for now. But I was pretty eager to unbox it at least. All right. I think the next thing to
do is to begin case work. Good. We do have thumb screws. I would hope there's some form of like tool kit in this or at least screws and stuff. This
case is actually kind of expensive comparatively to like the pretty boy cases you get. So, it has a GPU
bracket and things in it. If I hold it kind of to the side here, you can see. However, I don't really see any actual like additional hardware. So,
bring your own motherboard screws and everything like that. I guess that's all right. So, earlier I was raging out about how this didn't actually have
any hardware with it. I'm happy to report I was incorrect because there is a box of stuff here. Very
good. So, this doesn't actually have the standoffs for the back screws on this motherboard. I'm going to put those in cuz I want to eliminate sag, at
least with this specific setup. Also, you're probably going to notice I'm like not necessarily the most careful. I've done this a lot. So, I'm very
comfortable in the anals of a computer. one could say. Now we can properly mount our motherboard.
Although I'm wondering I kind of want to pull these cuz I don't need them and they're just going to inhibit air flow. So I am going to pull these as
well. We'll keep this thing kind of stripped out. All right, let's proceed with our motherboard installation.
This screw is always the most frustrating. The top corner, at least for me personally.
All right, I think next up, I'm just going to run the cables that I'm going to need from the motherboard down to the PSU. Now, if you're tightening
stuff like this for the first time, you almost want to do it in a cross star pattern and don't fully tighten any of them until they're all like pretty
tight. That's more for like putting wheels back on cars, but it also applies to all forms of
tightening. All right, now for the moment of truth. We are going to be installing this GPU. Now, there's some like uh protection on it which we'll be
removing. I'll try my best not to touch that. Never mind. So, all right. Now, I'm always really bad at figuring out which specific things here need to
be removed. So, I'll try to eyeball it. Okay. So, it's the second and third, not the first and
second. That's good. Then our next step is just to install the card, which I find just like in many years of doing this, these things are not as
delicate as I think people fear. I mean, I'm not going to like jam it in, but it's not like super I've done some jank stuff and I've never broken a
card. So, I mean, I did also get the warranty for this, but also if I break it doing this, I just won't
post this video and I'll be like, "Hey, it didn't work." I wouldn't do that. All right, perfect. It's in. That was pretty non-dramatic. I feel there's
a better word for that. Anticlimactic may have been the terminology I was looking for. Now, what do we have here? Yeah, I'm just going to put it in
with the screws that I took out cuz, you know, it is just a graphics card. It's a sick one. No, I'm
kidding. All right. Again, with doing this, like with the PU, when we put that in, I don't ever like tightening all of them fully until they're all in
and all snug. And then you can kind of do the full pass. I don't think I'm going to be reusing this sag bracket. I just the car's it's not going to
sag. It's it's extremely solid in there. And the final thing basically is to plug this in. So it's
like the scariest part. There's not a ton of clearance between that and the case, but you know.
All right. Was pretty um like not a satisfying click, but was something. Basically, now it's ready to be screwed together and turned on. Actually, significantly heavier now.
I'll probably leave the side off at least for the first boot. And maybe I should just verify that the power button is actually properly wired in. Thumbnail thumbnail material. All right.
It's just like completely silent though. It is on, right? The case fans aren't on. Is possible. I neglected to plug those in, which, you know, could
definitely be the case. All right. So, just in case anyone is uh not as intelligent as I, the actual fan hub that is connected to the front thing here
needs power from a SATA. So, if you find yourself with this case and aimlessly troubleshooting why
the fans won't turn on, it needs power to the little hub here. Uh, you know, not that struck me for 30 minutes. So, the final thing I'd like to do
right now real quick, it is on. Is this key is supposedly like it will lock the power button and stuff from actually being used. So, I want to try it.
Right. Okay. So, it's locked now. So, hypothetically. That's cool. So, if it's doing a training run or
something and you have the key locked, it won't actually respond to any like being powered off and stuff. That's really kind of cool. And then if I do
it here, it will turn off. But for now, I'm not going to. I do just want to see. So, this has a SSD in it from a pre-build and it should just have
Windows 11 on it, which Yeah, I know. But I just want to quickly see and make sure everything's
working. Now, I'm going to just plug the HDMI into the motherboard because I'm not going to use this card for video out since it's going to be busy.
All right, I'll need to move this to actually set it up properly, not in here. You may also be wondering like, are you going to put fans and stuff on
the top? I will. I do though want to get some like LED fans to put on the top cuz I think it'll look
cool with like LEDs emitting from this case. So I do need to get some. I neglected to earlier. All right, so the build is complete which is exciting.
Now of course the next thing is actually to get all the software set up and things like that. And then I have a training run that I want to be running
on this. It's a continued pre-train with a quen 38B on 350 to 500 million tokens of cyber security
related text that codeex is actually handling. It's currently running on the DGX Spark, but it was going to take like 7 and 1/2 days to do the entire
run. And on this card, I think it was going to take like 1 to two. So, um, in the interest of time, I figured why not. So, after a ton of headache and
troubleshooting, I realized this was not booting or showing video at all, regardless of whether or
not it was plugged into the card or the ports on the motherboard for the display port. Resizable bar needed to be disabled in this motherboard. It's
an MSI Zboard for the 12700 Intel CPU. So, fortunately, now it does have video. I am just using the motherboard port, but the issue was that it would
not actually boot or post or anything while the card was plugged in, but the card is now plugged in.
So the next step because this is Windows on this SD card or NVME is to put Ubuntu on it because you know
fortunately Ubuntu is now installed on it. So uh no more Windows. Although I have been using Windows 11 a lot lately and I do have to say I I don't
actually mind it. It's not bad. It's just frustrating because it should be better than it is because of like the crapware. Cool. The first video out
from the card is now done. The display port is in the card. So now I'm actually going to have Codeex
set this thing up entirely. I'm going to do nothing. All right. Sorry if there's like some just erroneous noise in the room, but what we see right
here is the Spark and it's actually doing a training run on Quen 38B dense. We can see right now it is currently at step 550. So, this is going pretty
slow, but the cool thing about this is this is entirely being orchestrated and set up by codecs
running on this little MacBook Air. So, everything here is justworked together with that little router there. And if we spin back around, we see it's
also plugged into this. So, I did just install and enable the SSH server for this system so that the MacBook Air and Codeex now can basically handle
the entire thing. So, I'm going to give it the username for the system and the password and then tell
it to connect. So, now I'm telling Codeex to just connect to this new system and it will now try to SSH and get into it. All right, cool. And it is
connected right here. So, it's going to notice that the drivers for Nvidia SMI are not available. So, the drivers for the card are not available. So,
I'm going to tell it to just install them. So, I've instructed it now to install all the proper
drivers that this system is going to need. It did have a terminal open there just to do a heartbeat check on the Spark, but I can keep an eye on that
there. And I may leave that running, I may not. I'm not 100% sure. But this is now going to go ahead and install all of the dependencies as well as
get the entire training setup running and going on the system. You can kind of see like if I snake it
around there, the front of it. I really do like this case. I am a big fan of that. So, and then it's going to basically handle everything here. So,
I'm going to just close all of this cuz we're not actually really even going to need to do anything as codeex is going to set the entire system up
dependency wise. This will take a little bit of time, but I'll update status-wise. So, there were some
issues because secure boot was enabled. So, I just disabled it. And then it's telling me, okay, great. And then I'm going to do this as well. So, I'm
just working in tandem with this. And obviously, you're going to be like, Bjun, you can't set this system up yourself. It's I can, but this is like
probably the future of actually doing a lot of this stuff. And I find it very interesting. some of the
things Codeex has been able to do for me in the past couple of months has been like insanely It's so weird holding this and vlogging like that. I'm
not look down on those folks but no um some of the things Codeex has been able to accomplish have been really like oh crap like this is kind of almost
scary. There are things I can't really show in videos because there's like a different side of some
of the stuff I do like for work and things like that. So, but it's really been quite fascinating and I want to just showcase it in something that's
actually easy to understand and cool to share. So, basically it's doing that. Nice. I'll reconnect. Confirm secure boot is actually off and then swap.
Okay, good. We have Nvidia SMI. The full 96 gig card is online. 600 watt power cap. Good. So, it just
basically checked what Nvidia SMI was going to report for the card. And again, it is just remotely or not remotely cuz it is using Ethernet, but it's
just connected to the system right there. Small wrinkle. It's not okay. So, it's basically now handling actually transferring over all of the specific
files for the uh training run that we're going to be doing. So, it's going to have to handle
setting everything there, but it'll work for a while and just do that autonomously. it will have to pull the base model from Hugging Face inevitably.
So, it can set the environment up itself and that'll take a little bit of time as the router I'm using is kind of like jank. So, also don't mind the
appearance of the rest of the space. I'm redoing that so it looks better. You see the mechanos over
there still. So, yeah. Cool. So, it's basically all set and training now. As we see right here, I told it like I want you to make sure the fans are
going to keep this card cool. So, I told it to put a good-looking graphic user interface. I don't know why I set it like that. I told it to put a
good-looking guey to monitor like the fan things and stuff like that. Right now, it just basically did
this. I told it to set it up and it is. So, it made a pretty looking like interface here. So, we can actually see GPU utilization, power draw,
temperature, fan, and it is showing recent loss, token seen. So, that's actually really cool. It just whipped this together and I told it to. Now
NVTOP going to just have it kill this real quick and then launch it again. So NVTOP shows there just cuz it's
good at that. And then all right, so that was cool. It saw that it still had that warning thing up for the Intel GPUs. So it said it's going to
dismiss it and then fix it from in there. And it totally did. So basically we have our entire training run here just being shown. Now this is on step
seven of 4528. It is estimating that it's going to take ETA 33 hours, 10 minutes, and 19 seconds. So, I do
have the card at full power. I want to make sure that the temperature doesn't get too crazy. I will blast the AC for the entirety of the day.
Obviously, this case can be modified a bit to properly cool the card a bit more if I do need to. And then also, it's just cool to see. So, that's at
step eight. Now, the same exact run right here on the Spark has been going for like many, many hours now, and
it's at step 580. So, this is significantly faster on the Blackwell Pro, as one would expect. So, really, that is probably going to conclude this
video. I know that some folks are going to be like, "Hey, I want to see like benchmarks and things like that." I get that, but I don't have any really
like inclination to use this card for inference. So, It's only going to be a training setup thing and
I'm very interested to see what happens here. So, basically, there's nothing else more to report. I know that may be kind of a lackluster way to leave
it off, but it is currently working in training, which is the specific purpose that I wanted this for. So, overall, I didn't even really intend to
make like a video on setting this up. I used to put like PC build videos for AI stuff on the channel.
I haven't done that in quite a while, but uh I wanted to do this one. I started filming it and it was fun. So, and I also wanted to show how much
codeex is actually capable or forget about just codeex like even claude code would probably be able to handle this totally fine. So, just seeing the
way these agents can actually interact and set up computers autonomously. It was even like okay it's
taking too long to download the weights from hugging face but they are cached on the spark. So, it actually just transferred them from the spark to
the blackwell machine instead which was kind of neat. So, it's just cool to see um how much like the AI agents and automations can really speed up
workflows and things. So, that's going to conclude today's video. Definitely a bit different, but I
wanted to post it. So, if you have any questions, leave them in the comments. And thanks for watching.