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Also a huge things to Supermicro for sending over the AS-2126HS-TN for review. Supermicro is also allowing me to keep this server, so let me know what crazy things I should do to it in the comments below. That said, this is still a fair review, and Supermicro had no input or requirements for this video, or any future projects on the channel.
AMD’s Epyc Turin architecture has been out for over a year now, but that doesn’t make it any less exciting. Zen 5 might have been a bit of a letdown on the consumer side of things, but the efficiency and performance gains in their server chips has been an absolute game changer.
Case in point, the AMD Epyc 9965, featuring 192 Zen 5c cores running at up to 3.7GHz, making for a single server with 384-Cores and 768-Threads, along with 24-Channels of DDR5-6400. This thing is an absolute beast.
Check out the Supermicro AS-2126HS-TN here: https://www.supermicro.com/en/products/system/hyper/2u/as-2126hs-tn
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Timestamps
0:00 – NEW SERVER DAY!
2:24 – Sponsor – Meter.com
3:56 – Specs, Speeds, Feeds
11:17 – m.2 mounting… needs improvement
13:42 – Networking and Power
15:49 – GPU Power Cables… needs improvement
17:59 – AS-2126HS-TN Final Thoughts
18:44 – Proxmox + Performance Testing
27:10 – FULL SEND! 96% Utilization!
31:27 – Final Thoughts and Wrap Up
33:57 – Mystic Libations – Bloodthorn Brew
