The ExpertCenter Pro ET900N G3 looks like it was specced for spreadsheet jockeys still clinging to their office DVDs. Yet under that dreary shell lurks a Grace-Blackwell beast, fused with Nvidia’s NVLink C2C and capable of belting out 20 PFLOPS. That is enough to terrify most data centres and annihilate anything your RTX 5090 can handle.

It is a full-fat AI dev box that needs no rack, no wind tunnel fans and no server room. Just plug it in next to the printer and pretend it is a filing cabinet.

This box packs up to 784GB of shared memory, which absolutely buries the combined VRAM of four RTX 6000 Ada cards and lets it juggle large language models without breaking a sweat.

Asus has chucked in support for Nvidia’s ConnectX 8 SuperNIC so the whole thing can link up with other machines in a high-speed AI cluster. Perfect if your next side project involves simulating sentient toast.

The ET900N G3 runs Nvidia DGX OS, a tricked-out Ubuntu variant that speaks fluent CUDA, TensorRT and all the other dark arts of AI development. It even plays nice with DGX gear should you want to bolt this sleeper desktop into a proper compute monster pit.

Best of all, it still has a DVD drive and a mystery slot that might just transport you back to 2004. Nothing says cutting-edge AI performance like a PC that could rip your Avril Lavigne CD collection.