is this your static safe CPU storage that is area
so statically safe what is an insulator unless it's wet in which case it's not
okay it's only like a thousand dollar CPU
like realistically you're gonna drop it anyway so like so inside this box is one
of the most bizarre products to ever land in our inbox i
think both Jake and i had exactly the same reaction Gigabyte sends out this
press release and they're like you guys we have water-cooled
overclockable servers and we were both like we need that
well no i think the first thing i said was but why
i definitely just wanted it and if you do have that can we use it to replace
our networked video transcode server
so we are going to answer all of those questions and more
okay uh who's taking it uh well i was just
gonna here it's all you classic you take it i got it yeah yeah just go for it i
believe in you okay that's not too bad
so the first thing we notice about this
after that it includes some handy toolless rails that's nice is that
this is a one-u server
so this is as slim as you would expect something like a like a a router or a
network switch to be except that this thing can handle do i
understand this correctly up to a 7900x
7.7 gigahertz 7980xc or a 7980xe at they
claim 4.6 gigahertz that
is a lot of performance to squeeze into a form factor like this
one so going over the outside of the server the first thing we notice is a
really thin honeycomb mesh over here that's for pretty obvious reasons this
thing's going to need some serious airflow we've got four those aren't
supposed to be switched are these i did that you did that so this is just to
look cool uh are they all open or some of them
i think they're all say that yeah they're all satan all right it's so weird it's like they let someone like me
onto their product team it says 2 times u.2 2 times SATA hot softball SSD base
well there you go maybe they were color coded the back plane up here it's not
all plugged in and there isn't enough cables to plug them in so all right well
we'll have a we'll have a look at it here first we can check out the back so
we've got one management port two gigabit network ports that was a little
disappointing 10 gig would have been nice uh serial as well as vga and then
these these are interesting check this out so if i were a betting
man and someone said this is a 1500 watt power supply
how many watts do you think this one is i would probably say something along the
lines of well this is a per volume calculation i don't know 250 to 300 no
no no this is an 1100 watt
80 plus platinum power supply that is
cooled by this fan and there's two they are
redundant so in the event that one of them fails the system will continue to
run and basically um i expect these to be incredibly loud
wow what the hell
there's 20 fans there's 20 i think these are like the 23
000 RPM ones and these might be the trippiest radiators i've ever seen these
are one new radiators and they're different sizes too this is definitely
custom this is highly custom so let's have a look then at how this
closed-loop cooler goes so check this out we can easily see what the flow path
is going to be so cool water marked blue
comes into our CPU where the pump is also located and then the hot water
comes out goes to this radiator comes out of this one and then back around
here and then cold goes back into the CPU so we're actually using both of
these rads to cool just the CPU
in terms of the rest of the specs we've got eight memory slots so that's quad
channel we've got a single pci express
slot which there is no obvious way to
actually plug anything in
so what we actually end up with is oh that's an interesting one
another more different pci express slot
that is broken out to two 16x slots up here
installed sideways but then also into this 1x slot so wait where's the
electrical signaling actually coming from is it this one i think it's that
one yeah it must be this might be like power or just for stability like if
you're going to build a custom board just for this server right you put the usb header somewhere you can actually
like the south bridge what about all this space here if you try to put a GPU
here it might even block yeah see that's so weird because so not only are we
limited to half height pci express cards
which is really going to affect our ability to upgrade networking
or add a GPU to this thing up this is going to severely limit the
length of the cards we can install as well when it really seems to me as an
you know a relative lay person like this could have just been put over here like
can you imagine being the engineer that gets given this assignment i'm sorry you
want to build what uh yeah so if you could make a pcb that powers over
twenty twenty three thousand RPM fans that
would be great thanks excuse me why
the power draws so gnarly that it has an eight pin is it eps look at this this is an 8-pin eps
connector that that provides CPU power
in the desktop systems for mere mortals those are good for 300 watts i think all
right so what are we going with for CPU choice i think we're going to go with a
7900 x so our current system has a 6950x
almost dropped it there and this is also a 10 core so it should be kind of close
in terms of performance although we're going to get the next generations improvements and then we're also going
to get our overclock improvements because this is going to overclock
better than that ugly water cooled now the weirdest thing about this
configuration is this building a server with like
Corsair gaming memory normally you would use ecc memory in a server because that
way if there's a friggin solar flare and a bit flip or whatever it can
automatically be corrected and the system can keep running without
interruption but there's a couple of factors at play here one we're planning
to overclock the bloody thing anyway it wasn't gonna be it wasn't going to be
have the same kind of stability you'd expect from a normal server and two
because we're running an overclockable core i9 processor it actually doesn't
even have support for ecc memory so
with that said we couldn't just choose any old gaming RAM because it doesn't
fit it's even on like the exact same plane as this
bracket here so it oh yeah just barely fits that's nuts i mean the funny thing
about this too is that you can't see can you find thanks i've wanted
overclockable servers for as long as i've been a computer enthusiast but now
that someone actually made one i'm like experienced enough to know that
it's not worth it not have been the greatest idea uh what is that so this is a 1050 ti had
to do a little modification we took the shroud off but there's gonna be plenty
of airflow so it shouldn't be a problem it's even got its own duct like it's
perfectly fine all right so we're gonna have a slight issue here too so you gotta take this thing out to get it in
here okay this connector is actually so close that it hits it and i'm going to
have to bend it down while you stick the card in there it looks ghetto but it's
really not that ghetto what oh no
did i catch it i think i'm in no you're cutting oh oh
but it's in oh god it's good enough it's great all right
you win so we're gonna put a headless uh HDMI
thing in here too so when we're remoting in you get the full resolution you know
honestly i don't even feel that bad about our ghetto-ness here because if
you look at like how the server was actually designed
they literally just took like a piece of foam here
and cut a hole in it i think that's like and put it there to keep the airflow
going through the radiator that's not that jank it like it's like nice foam at
least it's not like it's styrofoam yeah that's probably like electrically apple
wouldn't do it this way oh well man if apple starts making servers again
they're going to have dongles on their servers you're just going to see like a Thunderbolt hanging out of the front of
the server with like you get your fiber line and your whatever like
okay should we plug it in then so that's it yeah let's plug this up the top back
on because i think the airflow is pretty important do i put this on the right way
hold on i can do this i believe
impressive taking your server for a walk yeah all right let's go we got to take
care of them otherwise they get out of shape stuff
okay so we just uh found a spare
spot in our server room we're just gonna let it sit there yeah
just slide it in there i mean the rails are really only designed for one server but
like whatever yeah it's not like that's a really heavy one anyway
that is really really loud like honestly here hold on can we close
this door for a sec
you can still hear it yeah even so clearly even with all the sound
deadening that we put in this room which people mocked me for but actually works
works phenomenally thank you but that pitch
yeah it penetrates like i'm over by the green screen now
that's an actual problem like yeah no i don't know if that's gonna
okay it just dialed it back a little yeah
okay right now it's fine so the process of overclocking this thing was actually
kind of a nightmare but we're there and our CPU is running at a cool 4.7
gigahertz now it wasn't actually that easy to get it here uh Gigabyte's manual
for this server doesn't exist yet yeah and there's some extra steps so in
addition to setting your core voltage and setting your uh CPU multiplier like
you would overclocking on a desktop board you have to key some
magic value so let's go ahead and hit it with a
stress test 65 watts at idle
not bad oh 69 69 yes not bad all right so let's start a
stress test make sure she holds 100 utilization 4.7 gigahertz what kind of
temperatures are we looking at 60 to 70 50 75 degrees
heck yeah so we loaded some stuff on here we've
got regular cinebench which we're going to run real quick here and by real quick
i do mean literally real quick this should be very fast and then
to address that cinebench has actually gotten to the point where very high-end
processors run it too fast to
use it as a reliable benchmark we've got the new unofficial what's it called
cinebench extreme extreme we're going to try that out as well so kicking things
off we got ourselves 2500 points
which is pretty good now let's try extreme
which is basically just four times the resolution this one first whoa look at
those temps yeah they're starting to get up there
that is quite the load
wow we are above 90 degrees on a handful of
course here you might say that this benchmark takes a hot minute okay i'll
give you that one oh we did detect some overheating but our
throttling percentage is zero and it finished so she seems to be just
just holding on
656 which i have no context for because this is a brand new benchmark i've never
used before so why don't we go ahead and shut all of that down and let's do our
uh our network network render okay so i got uh just
down there that is one of adobe's sample files sure so we're just open up final
one and we're gonna export this like we would in ltte video so the 60 megabit
per second and then 75. cool at 4k
and it is fully utilizing our CPU so one
thing that we observed about our network render server way back when i had
intended to use like 18 core xeons in it or something was that there's a limit to
how many threads media encoder can actually use so it's better to have
fewer higher clock threads than it is to have many many threads in a lot of cases
which is how we ended up with an overclocked render server in the first
place so this looks like it could be a viable
replacement so the results are in and cinebench both cinebench and cinebench
extreme gave us 20 increases in performance that's actually quite a bit
more than i was expecting so the increase in clock speed is 17 and a half
but it's still 20 so we're getting like what three percent increase ipc but then
in premiere we actually got a 30
uplift going from what is that thing having it
a gtx 980 and a 6950x and a 6950x
not freaking bad but the problem is it's
loud the other problem is that this whole
this whole experience still hasn't really enlightened us as to what that
crap this thing's actually for so Jake intrepidly
sent an email to Gigabyte asking them
what is this for why does it exist why did you build an overclockable 1u server
can't even put a GPU like it doesn't really have networking like what would
you even use this for and the answer is
the finance industry high frequency trading so you would take this server
you need the highest possible frequent performance you need something that's
air-cooled so it can just be slotted into your existing server room
you throw one of these puppies in or maybe even a newer one so this is a 100
gigabit infiniband card so super low latency yeah wire that up to your
network and the difference in these like what are like
milliseconds maybe five milliseconds the difference there could be hundreds of
thousands or millions of dollars in that industry a couple hundred traders over a
year like it can be a big increase for a small amount of money so the investment
in one of these servers makes a ton of sense there but for us i'm not running
out and recommending that everyone go and buy one of these it's just too
freaking loud it's it's very loud otherwise it'd be pretty sweet though
yeah like maybe we should just re-insulate the server like a second
layer or we could even just put like more sound deadening around that box or
we could just upgrade the server that's in there right now
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