Hetzner shows Special AM5 Board with 90° Rotated Socket
der8auer EN1 HN recommenders · 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.
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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).
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]
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]
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.