
Hetzner shows Special AM5 Board with 90° Rotated Socket
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Der8auer tours Hetzner's test lab and shows a custom AM5 server motherboard with the CPU socket rotated 90 degrees, built for rack airflow in their AX52 servers.
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Pointed to as a look at Hetzner's unusual semi-custom server hardware and cooling.
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There's some videos out there showing off their custom motherboards, it's an odd mixture of standard-ish consumer ATX but stripped down to the absolute bare essentials and with some components rearranged for better airflow in racks chassis they also build themselves: [VIDEO] Another video showing the custom racks and other infrastructure: [LINK]
Read original comment ↗Der8auer did some similar videos a few years ago, but in English: [LINK] [VIDEO] The second is especially interesting as it demonstrates Hetzner's unique semi-custom hardware.
Read original comment ↗Hetzner also do some crazy-cool stuff, especially around the 7950X3D, cooling, AM5 etc. ( [VIDEO] ). They also do some amazing stuff with ARM (their cloud offering is really solid for this).
Read original comment ↗Hetzner is buying ASUS consumer AM5 motherboards, but with the whole CPU + memory block rotated so that the memory sticks are horizontal instead of vertical for better airflow: [VIDEO]
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