 Is this your static safe CPU storage area? That is so statically safe. What is an insulator unless it's wet, in which case it's not. Okay. It's only like a thousand dollars 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're gonna answer all of those questions and more. Okay. Okay. Who's taking it? 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 tool-less rails. That's nice. Is that this is a very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very small-scale processor. So you're saying that this is a one-U server. So this is as slim as you would expect something like a router or a network switch to be, except that this thing can handle, do I understand this correctly, up to a 7900X- No, no, no, no. At Gigabyte claims. 4.7 GHz. 7980XE. 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 gonna 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. Are they all SATA or some of them NBME or what? I think they're all SATA, yeah. They're all SATA, all right. It's so weird. It's like they let someone like me onto their product team. It says two times U.2, two times SATA, hotsaw, Poblust, and Steebeys. 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 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. 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, if 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 I expect these to be incredibly loud. Wow. What the hell? There's 20 fans. There's 20 of them. 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 gonna 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 too. 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 16 X slots up here, installed sideways, but then also into this one X 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 gonna build a custom board just for this server, right? You put the USB header somewhere, you can actually- Yeah, 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 gonna affect our ability to upgrade networking or add a GPU to this thing, this is going to severely limit the length of the cards we can install as well. When it really seems to me as a relative lay person, like this could have just been put over here. Like, can you imagine being the engineer that's given this assignment? I'm sorry, you wanna build what? Yeah, so if you could make a PCB that powers over 20, 23,000 RPM fans, that would be great. Thanks, excuse me? Why? The power draw is so gnarly that it has an eight pin. Exactly. Is it an EPS? Look at this, this is an eight pin EPS connector. 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 gonna go with a 7900X. 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 gonna get the next generation's improvements. And then we're also gonna get our overclock improvements because this is gonna overclock better than that ugly water cooled thing. 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 frigging 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 gonna 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 just barely fits. That's nuts. I mean, the funny thing about this too, is that- Can't see, can you? 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. Might not have been the greatest idea. 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. This connector is actually so close that it hits it. And I'm gonna have to bend it down while you stick the card in there. It looks ghetto, but it's really not that ghetto. What? Oh man. Oh no. Did I catch it? I think I'm in. No, you caught it. Oh. Oh, but it's in. Oh God. It's good enough. Screw it. All right, you win. So we're gonna put a headless 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 to like- And put it there to keep the airflow going through the radiators. That's not that jank. It's like nice foam at least. It's not like it's styrofoam. Look at that. That's probably like electrically- Apple wouldn't do it this way. Oh, well man, if Apple starts making servers again, they're gonna have dongles on their servers. You're just gonna see like a thunderbolt hanging out of the front of the server with like, you get your fiber line and your whatever, like, just. Okay. Should we plug it in then? So that's it, yeah. Let's plug this puppy in. We should put the top back on, because I think the airflow is pretty important. Oh, did 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 gotta take care of them, otherwise they get out of shape and stuff. Okay, so we just 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? Yeah. You can still hear it. Yeah. 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, 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. Gigabyte's manual for this server doesn't exist yet. And there's some extra steps. So in addition to setting your core voltage and setting your 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. 60, 75 degrees. Heck yeah. So we loaded some stuff on here. We've got regular Cinebench, which we're gonna 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. We're gonna try that out as well. So kicking things off, we got ourselves 2,500 points, which is pretty good. Now let's try Extreme, which is basically just four times the resolution. We gotta close this one first. Whoa, look at those temps. Yeah, they're starting to get up there. Woo! That is quite the load. Wow. We are above 90 degrees on a handful of cores 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. Okay. 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 network render. Okay, so I got, just down there, that is one of Adobe sample files. Sure. So we're just open up the final one and we're gonna export this like we would an LTT 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 cores, eons 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 percent. Yeah, but still 20%. So we're getting like what, 3% increase IPC? But then in Premiere, we actually got a 30% uplift going from, what does that thing have in 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 experience still hasn't really enlightened us as to what the 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 one use 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 freaking 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 Gigabyte InfiniBand card. So super low latency. You wire that up to your network and the difference in these like, what are we talking about? Like 10 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 very loud. Otherwise it'd be pretty sweet though. Yeah, maybe we should just re-insulate the server room. 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. So thanks for watching guys. If you disliked this video, you can hit that button. But if you liked it, hit like and subscribe, or maybe consider checking out where to buy the stuff we featured at the link in the video description, as long as you're in the high frequency trading market portion of the finance industry. Yay. Also linked in the video description is our merch store, which has cool shirts. Ooh, it's Jibo today. 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