Supermicro Super AI Station Review: The AI Server That Doubles as a Workstation

Supermicro's Super AI Station (ARS-511GD-NB-LCC) is a DGX Station system built on NVIDIA's Grace Blackwell GB300 platform, pairing a 72-core Grace CPU with 496GB of LPDDR5X and a Blackwell Ultra GPU with 252GB of HBM3E, powered by a 1600W 80 Plus Titanium supply. Its convertible chassis can serve as a desktop tower or be rack-mounted as a 5U system, with dual 400Gbps QSFP112 ports via a ConnectX-8 SuperNIC, 10GbE and BMC networking, and an optional RTX PRO Blackwell 2000 card. The review notes the front I/O is limited to two 5Gbps USB-A ports, there are no USB-C ports, and the liquid-cooled design includes an externally accessible coolant tank.