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$1800 for a 1U server in a 24C/48T and 64GB of RAM configuration? These are incredibly competitive. How much cheaper are whitebox versions of the same thing if this is the HP premium price?

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1U fans drive me crazy. Are there any vendors that plumb these for liquid cooling?

Not that I've ever heard of, except for a few unaffordably high-end servers that put out absurd amounts of heat. Rackmount servers are meant for datacenters, where noise levels are generally not a concern.

Noctua fans are your best bet - they're drastically less noisy than any other fans I've come across.

And they move dramatically less air than those little blowers they put in 1U machines. Sure at lower speeds they are quieter, but when you really need to remove the heat its hard to beat spinning at 4x the RPM, which is noisy.

Don't know a place to get it prebuilt, but building an EPYC "desktop" can be a lot like building a TR one. There are ATX server mobos. TR4 coolers should work with EPYC; Noctua explicitly says theirs do, and the physical socket and TDPs match.

You might want TR for the higher frequencies, though. I guess you could use EPYC for a very expandable 16C machine, or to pay a bit less for lower clocks, though I don't know if it ends up worth the fuss.

Yes, but in my experience they can be problematic. Servers do best in rooms away from people.

Annoyingly, not very much cheaper and the security blanket of "HPE" for management made them a default choice.

Their premium comes with shit like the 200 dollar "enablement" card full of passive component.

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