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Hetzner shows Special AM5 Board with 90° Rotated Socket

der8auer EN · 43.7K views · 2023-04-06 · 9:35

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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.

Recommended by 1 HN people across 2 months · HN mentions 2023–2025

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jsheard · 2025-11 · Recommendation

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.

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jsheard · 2024-02 · Recommendation

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]

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dist-epoch · 2024-02 · Reference

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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