Thanks for the clarification. Surely, If I run hashcat benchmark the power consumption goes nearly to 1400 Watt, but I also limited the max power consumption for each card to 100 Watt, which worked out better than limiting the max gpu frequency. To be fair, the most speed comes from the RAM frequency - as long as this is not limited, it works out great.

I took a fair amount of time to get everything to a reduced power level and measured several llm models (and hashcat for the extreme) to find the best speed per watt, which is usally around 1700-1900 mhz or limiting 3060 to 100 to 115 watt.

If I planned it in the first run, I may got away with a used mac studio, thats right. However, I incrementally added more cards as I moved further into exploration.

I didn't wanted to confront someone, but it looks like you either show of 4x 4090 or you keep silent