Hetzner shows Special AM5 Board with 90° Rotated Socket on HackerTube: recommended by 1 Hacker News commenter across 2 separate months, 2023–2025.
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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.
Pointed to as a look at Hetzner's unusual semi-custom server hardware and cooling.
“The second is especially interesting as it demonstrates Hetzner's unique semi-custom hardware.”
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Der8auer did some similar videos a few years ago, but in English: [link] ▶ this video The second is especially interesting as it demonstrates Hetzner's unique semi-custom hardware.
in “A day at Hetzner Online in the Falkenstein data center” · View on HN
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: ▶ this video Another video showing the custom racks and other infrastructure: [link]
in “Hetzner GPU Server” · View on HN
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: ▶ this video
in “Hetzner GPU Server” · View on HN
Hetzner also do some crazy-cool stuff, especially around the 7950X3D, cooling, AM5 etc. ( ▶ this video ). They also do some amazing stuff with ARM (their cloud offering is really solid for this).
in “Fly.io Postgres cluster down for 3 days, no word from them about it” · View on HN