Checking Out The Gigabyte G482 Z50: A Truly Epyc Server

[@Level1Techs]

PCIe Lanes and cores for DAYSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS :D

[@kitecattestecke2303]

Price :-9 at the time for the lowest setup possible ^^ Can you do a used server from ebay for beginners video? I rather buy an old professional system than go with raspberry/or desktop pc's diy trash solutions..

[@Whipster-Old]

I could replace my whole hosting operation with a distressingly small number of these.

[@TheNefastor]

WEEEEEEEEEKS, even !

[@Irthex]

500 watts on the fans? It would be fun to have you put wheels on it and see how fast it can accelerate

[@lemmonsinmyeyes]

That linus call out @5:20 lol, stop breaking servers LTT!

[@dermothoyne2393]

[Lukes laughter in bkgd escalating]

[@Pytte]

imagine living in a country where you only get 110v ..

[@Suerlink]

*Chasis Arrives and Its Cracked Open* Wendell: UGHASAJHJAHSDJSDHAJK ... WHAT CAN I DO WITH THIS?! Also Wendell: Everything is so clear now. I must break all the records and show this to the world! Finally Wendell: Where's the invoice at? ... ... ... Ah, I see. I'm never retiring now.

[@Sphaerocarpaceae]

Wow, what a machine! My work tends to be deployed on run of the mill cloud servers, so it's always really fun to see how fast optimized workloads can go when they're run on a FlushMaster 9000™.

[@FabiVoltair]

I'm extremely excited about the project this server is going to be part of!!!

[@frumpleydashbaggler1233]

This reminds me a lot of some of the chassis Boxx came out with a while back. They even had a 6U that could hold 16 GPUs. Thing was a monster. Couldn't handle as many drives though.

[@ThePoot_tf2]

I don't need it, I DON'T NEED IT....................I NEEEEEEEEED IIIIIITTTTT

[@theWanAndOnly]

I sacrifice my comment to the almighty algorithm

[@davidg4512]

What a truly epic server.

[@brianmccullough4578]

I want one! I don't know what I'd do with it, but I want it!!!!!

[@theviewer1423]

(Slaps server) this bad boy can fit so much hardware in it.

[@A7777777lan]

I am very excited for 10 years from now. At that point these servers will be cheep and I will be buying a whole bunch of them for an amazing homelab.

[@TimLongson]

An interesting ‘case’ study for you to try, split into 3 questions: 1. How much/many 140mm based radiators (e.g. multiple mixes of 420mm and/or 560mm) would you need to be able to passively cool (WITHIN the same case as the components) a top of the range (eg RTX 3090 and AMD 9 5950X or a threadripper) fully water cooled system (at least GPU, CPU) at full over clock, to within 5 degrees of ambient temperature with the fans set to their absolute lowest possible speed, and not really needing to spin at all under normal load? 2. Which off the shelf cases (max spending limit of $1,000 for the case) can fit all those radiators at the same time? 3. If there are no cases which you can buy off the shelf which can fit those radiators at the same time within the system case, which case would you buy off the shelf as a starting point, and can you show us a step by step followable guide to how to mod the case so it CAN fit all those radiators? Try and keep the modifications to methods that people could DIY with only moderate access to power tools. Can you demonstrate/show us such a system in action, and give us a rough idea of total cost for the case and total cooling system (e.g. presumably if there are loads of radiators, a more powerful pump would be needed)?

[@JustSomeGuy009]

So, fyi, in the USA almost ever single computer and network gear has a ranged PSU. And you can supply them with single phase 110V (or more appropriately 120V) all the way up to 240V. Technically they are rated to go below and above those rates as well. Common single phase electric voltages for server racks and UPS/PDU gear is 120/208/240V. If you need 120V for some equipment I'd recommend a UPS with a transformer. Also you will need C13/C14 (or some other equivalent) cable to replace the NEMA 5-15P cables that are almost always supplied. The real advantage is running at high voltage and LESS amperage. Making everything run considerably more efficient and providing more density in a rack

[@xclusivereef5805]

Good review man. This would be overkill for me. What chassis would you recommend for home user ?

[@honestgoat]

I think I need one of those for my next Plex server...

[@Outland9000]

I'm on the line of thought! 😁

[@R34L157]

What a time to be alive

[@bartoszm84]

Looks like Wendell have new girlfriend. Shes super fast and can do stuff u allways wanted to do.

[@Trident_Euclid]

Incoming R34

[@only_mango]

Please do review on liqid fabric switch. And always thank you for educating us

[@ruojautuma1]

Forget buying server hardware.. I need me a Flushmaster 9000

[@unclerubo]

Huh, so PSUs now come in RAID5...

[@meddlin]

"...only 32 cores" lol

[@GladinGAFloodGoFundMe]

Truly plebian...

[@Whipster-Old]

Might as well be a calculator

[@edwardallenthree]

I can't wait to buy this for my home lab in 2031.

[@markmulder996]

So Wendell, i'm just about to slap my first home lab server together. So since you're done reviewing this beast, i assume you could send it over to me to give it a go. I'll totally send it back to you when i've tried it out :)

[@julian.morgan]

I watch these types of videos by Wendell, in much the same way I watch old Top Gear super car specials, but something did catch my interest that's probably only in server space right now: What's with 2.5" form factor NVMe drives? I ask because a total turn off for me is the un-swapable nature of M.2 NVMe SSDs slotting inaccessibly into the motherboard, often right under the GPU. For me I'll swallow the outright speed hit to use 2.5" form factor SATA SSD's in 5.25" hot swap drive bays in a fairly standard E-ATX type case (from a few years back when they still included optical drive bays). I just love the flexibility and I mostly use it to easily multi-boot OS's bare metal. I love having a single PC that's multiple flavours of Linux and Windows and Mac with a few clicks and clunks, without the expense of buying the hardware needed to do the same thing efficiently in VM. Being able to keep much the same form factor but have those 'drives' be caddys holding M.2 NVMe drives that are cabled to the motherboard's M.2 sockets is very interesting - even if there were only two on a typical desktop motherboard. Front access NVMe - yes!!

[@wolfpoker]

Yes the video is awesome but kudos on the thumbnail as well!

[@llothar68]

Only complain i have about the design is that both 10GbE run over the single Intels X550-AT2 chip and that is fixed to CPU1 only. with two 10GbE ports i really thought we could get one on each CPU.

[@Level1Techs]

PCIe limitation. Can't have a pcie slot or single peripheral "multi-homed" to more than one socket. It's easy enough to add a second X550-AT2 adapter, though? Since you've got slots for DAYS

[@denvera1g1]

I wish it were thermally possible to have high performance 3.5 inch U.2 drives with super dense layout. Basically i see 4x boards stacked on top of each other, each with many NAND chips on both side inside of the 3.5 inch form factor for bulk fast storage that is more dense than 2.5 inch chassis

[@flikflak24]

would probably be a bit of a overkill box to just use it as roughter ( load it up with dual port 100Gb network card. technically it could run 15 of those cards if all the pci-e was allocaded for that only ) could be fun to see though xD im sure he can do it if he want to. he got the skills. his not called the techsupport's techsupport for nothing

[@mianderson86]

This is an insane chassis and honestly the power per dollar is pretty good, even on the top end. Ive got some clients to talk to.

[@RyTrapp0]

Just make sure the local power grid can support all that power supply and cooling LOL

[@fzth-t7s]

Turning this thing on would blow out my fuse easily.

[@Tarulia]

Just out of curiosity (not that I'm ever gonna buy one of those lol), are these Risers still PCIe 3.0 or finally 4.0?

[@alaingraham]

The PSU's are very well suited to the uk pwr grid.

[@ultra_code_]

"Do you want to empty your wallet? This would be a good start." :P

[@jamerican347]

Now Gigabyte need to release their BRIX NUC computers with 5000 series parts.

[@Liriq]

Wendell, can you explain the terminology/syntax for server PSUs? I see stuff like "2200w (2x2)", or "2200w (3+1)". What do those mean? What's the diff? Lovin your vids man

[@mdd1963]

Perfect for my NAS duties, as my home storage needs have blossomed to almost 500 GB or so... :)

[@Dylan-xc8yz]

Do you use RAM disks? Lol

[@bw_merlin]

Has anyone used Gigabyte, ASUS, ASRock or similar lesser known (not Dell, HPE, Lenovo or ACER etc) server vendors in production? What was your experience?

[@Outland9000]

Anyone know what the background music is please?

[@madman1027]

This is basically a rack in a box

[@DenGuleBalje]

CORES FOR SALE

[@loadmastergod1961]

Looks perfect for flux proof of useful work

[@tanmaypanadi1414]

you can break some other records like a heaviest server ever. that thing is a back breaker . how did you get it on that table Wendelltron.

[@bBrain]

Just making a note, to come back in 10 years and laugh at what we thought was "fast". :D

[@mayurkulkarni1990]

wheres flushmaster 9000 review :p

[@spdcrzy]

FINALLY. Wendell: one thing I'm really interested in seeing is 8x Ampere A100 and 2x 7763 running as a dedicated F@H node. It is a very effective way of both maxing out the system physically and testing its reliability. Putting a ConnectX dual 100Gb NIC (or two) into that system and testing its abilities that way would be really cool to see. One question I do have though: does this particular chassis support OCP 2.0 or OCP 3.0? I can't see documentation anywhere showing one way or the other, although this chassis is already known as a monster.

[@Marin3r101]

Linus isnt an Admin by any stretch of the noggin. He is a presenter.

[@cracklingice]

Don't need it but I want it.

[@TheSleepyCraftsman]

Okay, I'm officially jealous now. Server hardware has always interested me more than consumer hardware.

[@faithful451]

Me too. *Envious tho ;)

[@jakobfindlay4136]

Hey Wendel I saw a a100 show up on the top of the etherium leaderboards, I assume your making some money for another server xD

[@vincei4252]

@Level1Techs you're EPYC.

[@ElijahPerrin80]

BA Whooosh :)

[@SmokeytheBeer]

MY GOD 3 x 2.2 kW power supplies. It would take enough energy from a small city to power a cluster of these servers.

[@50PullUps]

can you play quake champions on it?

[@Shadowauratechno]

Such a pretty server! Will you be getting an instinct mi100 to test with milan? I'm curious how the infinity architecture works in practice

[@itsdeonlol]

32 Cores at 4ghz is so EPYC!!!

[@bgtubber]

Those are some tasty chips!

[@ericneo2]

IOPS...So we might see a RAMDISK?

[@locusm]

Did the world record iops attempt happen?

[@Level1Techs]

Yes, we were able to do the backup of 2 terabytes in around 20 seconds, too

[@johnmijo]

SO does Gigabyte OK the renaming of this server chassis to the Flushmaster 9000 :p And as Vegeta once said: OVER 9000 ;)

[@andr.3348]

But can it run Crysis?

[@wreckervilla]

oooo shiny

[@prodeous]

This is beyond unfair.. I want one... Or two

[@ralakus8784]

Or three

[@tanmaypanadi1414]

can we get a mine craft server if you do end up getting one 😉please.

[@charlesselrachski34]

They sent him the worst version of the series.... plx switches before the pcie slots cutting you down to pcie3.0 -why in 2021? Get any models in the series above the z50, ex: z54-z51(all slots direct to amd cpu and get pcie40 slots) and no plx pcie30 switches.

[@craigcordeiro8530]

*Drools*

[@andljoy]

That is a thicc boy .

[@BridgetTheNun]

Hey Wendell throw me one of those epyc boxes with the cpu in it!

[@LoveToMix]

Is there a double like button?

[@Entity8473]

Are you sure you guys are level one? I think you are missing a digit!

[@Dylan-xc8yz]

Level 1 of the OSI Model, physical hardware.

[@LazyHoplite]

So... can it run Crysis?

[@honestgoat]

I only need 1 Watts... Me ;)

[@BendySendy]

"order the server now and figure out what you need later" yikes dude lol.

[@Level1Techs]

I know but clearly this is how many orgs operate :( I know the suffering lol

[@BendySendy]

@@Level1Techs oh definitely same here! Also that server IS super nice. As always, great vid too.

[@b2bb]

AMD shitting on Intel yet again

[@tardisrocks]

First?

[@naamloos1337]

Second