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Hetzner shows Special AM5 Board with 90° Rotated Socket

Name: Hetzner shows Special AM5 Board with 90° Rotated Socket
Description: 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.

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1 HN user recommended this demo in 2 different months between 2023 and 2025.

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Pointed to as a look at Hetzner's unusual semi-custom server hardware and cooling.

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.

Pull quote: “The second is especially interesting as it demonstrates Hetzner's unique semi-custom hardware.” (HN, 2025)

Also tagged: custom server motherboards, hetzner, am5, server hardware, cooling, data center

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Recommends jsheard February 2024 under Hetzner GPU Server

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]

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Recommends jsheard November 2025 under A day at Hetzner Online in the Falkenstein data center

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.

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Citations, criticism and jokes

Cites it thejosh July 2023 under Fly.io Postgres cluster down for 3 days, no word from them about it

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).

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Cites it dist-epoch February 2024 under Hetzner GPU Server

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]

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