44K views · Apr 6, 2023 · 9:35 · 1 HN recommender · 4 mentions · discussed 2023–2025
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.
Why Hacker News points people here: 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.”HN comment, 2025
“There's some videos out there showing off their custom motherboards”
Custom stripped-down motherboards arranged for rack airflow
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
“The second is especially interesting as it demonstrates Hetzner's unique semi-custom hardware.”
Demonstrates Hetzner's unique semi-custom hardware
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.
“Hetzner also do some crazy-cool stuff, especially around the 7950X3D, cooling, AM5 etc.”
Hetzner's custom AM5 hardware and cooling
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).
“Hetzner is buying ASUS consumer AM5 motherboards, but with the whole CPU + memory block rotated”
ASUS AM5 boards with rotated CPU and memory block for airflow
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
