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@tobiwonkanogy2975

Жыл бұрын

will absolutely watch the server upgrade. Hyper dense server .

@timmetimme1360

Жыл бұрын

So no Crysis 🤔

@themice42

Жыл бұрын

Wendell.....LEGEND

@sketchtherapy1218

Жыл бұрын

He has a point, it's a pealing.

@Cinetyk

Жыл бұрын

*almost*

"We don't do that here" - Steve "It's a-pealin'" - Wendell.. :D Good one Wendell

I do enjoy how Wendell makes every other Tech KZreadr sound like a complete tech novice.

@sammiller6631

Жыл бұрын

Wendell doesn't make Dr Ian Cutress of TechTechPotato sound like a complete tech novice.

@klfjoat

Жыл бұрын

@@sammiller6631 Ian is ex-AnandTech. AnandTech makes every non-computer-engineer sound like a complete tech novice.

@DovahDoVolom

Жыл бұрын

Most other youtubers are explaining for the masses but Wendell has his audience down. The people who want to know the hardcore details.

@sammiller6631

Жыл бұрын

@@DovahDoVolom Wendell is for people who want to know the hardcore details in a _concise_ way instead of Buildzoid's hour of rambling

@yumri4

Жыл бұрын

@@sammiller6631 though also not go to the white paper and read for an hour either. It is normally only 80 to 100 pages long with diagrams and descriptions that rely on each other so you need 2 or 3 of them open to understand what you are looking at.

I had the pleasure of seeing part of a supercomputer array used by the late Stephen Hawking for his physics research being fired up. One thing I noticed about it was how it had so many fans running at full speed when starting up, it was almost as loud as a PS4 Pro!

@GamersNexus

Жыл бұрын

Wow! That's really cool that you got to see that!

@eddiehimself

Жыл бұрын

@@GamersNexus It was really rather neat. It's actually at a massive collection of vintage computers in North Yorkshire, England. I'm sure you could arrange a visit should you ever find yourselves in the UK c:

@ImNotHere4750

Жыл бұрын

💀

@blahorgaslisk7763

Жыл бұрын

I built servers for a living some years back. One server is obnoxious, but when you have 40 - 80 1U servers in the test room all running torture test with 40°C in the room every fan is running at max speed. You do need hearing protection even if all you are doing is setting up a new server for test. Being of the "I'm invincible" mind I often didn't, and today I have pretty bad tinnitus. So use hearing protection when working in a server center or even when just testing a single server if it's powerful. At worst you're a bit uncomfortable or look like a dork, but at least you can hear what people are saying. Cuts down a lot on the number of times you yell "What?"

@theroyalaustralian

Жыл бұрын

Daum

Steve going "we don't do that here" has some SERIOUS daddy energy.

@Craftimonium

Жыл бұрын

😵

@Mattspips

Жыл бұрын

daddy?

@xenthia

Жыл бұрын

daddy? sorry... daddY? sorry.

@twocups8994

Жыл бұрын

Sus

@Amberion

Жыл бұрын

@@cmas5854 a-peeling

You know shit just got real when Steve goes "I'm not normally scared of pulling a GPU, but..."

@blahorgaslisk7763

Жыл бұрын

Loved the way he put the card down when Wendell said the they retailed at about $7K...

@markboz3366

Жыл бұрын

Absolutely, he understands the monetary value, and that most of his audience wouldn't spend half the cost of 1 gpu on their entire system. Such a contrast to another tech tuber who would just rip it out with the attitude of "if I break it I'll just buy it"

@mkall

Жыл бұрын

i ve never seen steve flustered in front of hardware before

@tasnimulsarwar9189

Жыл бұрын

@@markboz3366 who are you alluding to?

@jritechnology

Жыл бұрын

​@@tasnimulsarwar9189 Who cares?

Steve's face and reaction to Wendell telling him the MSRP of the Instinct card at 16:20 is the best. I cracked up and had to watch it a second time.

@quantumuninstall

Жыл бұрын

Came to the comments for this. *tries to act cool* *puts it down*.

@matasa7463

Жыл бұрын

@@quantumuninstall Looks around nervously. Considering how these things can mysteriously die from nothing, it's a legit concern.

@PLee-vu6mp

Жыл бұрын

pure gold.

@ChristopherWoods

Жыл бұрын

I had a similar reaction when I found out how much a broken RTX A6000 I was replacing in a work machine cost 💀

Wendell is the best 😂

@MartinBalle7

Жыл бұрын

Love the intro 😁

@treyquattro

Жыл бұрын

well, Steve's no slouch either!

2600W 80+ Titanium PSU in that formfactor is insane

@jayaskme2942

Жыл бұрын

Agreed, i remember being limited to a 300w power supply in my 1st and 2nd shuttle builds. 😪. Dont miss those days at all

@aeasus

Жыл бұрын

That's for each node and 2 nodes per unit.

@LtdJorge

Жыл бұрын

Imagine the price

Every time Wendell shows up with hot steamy tech it's like TechMoses coming down with another Ten Commandments. I love it.

@tyguy3876

Жыл бұрын

Which Moses transferred from a cube to a tablet 😘

Wendell is quickly becoming "the IT guy" for KZreadrs 😂

@kojack57

Жыл бұрын

No no. He's the computer janitor.

@JBrinx18

Жыл бұрын

@@kojack57 Especially with that collection of toilet lids, right?

@GKZanite

Жыл бұрын

Been following Wendell since Tek Linux started. If there's anyone to trust, it's him,

@alr6435

Жыл бұрын

It's crazy seeing Wendell in front of a camera after growing up watching the teksyndicate

@kojack57

Жыл бұрын

@@JBrinx18 A very particular bit of knowledge. Although the orange soda ...saga during Covid was very amusing.

Crazy how servers that are so densely packed are still repairable, yet Dell can't make their tower PCs with standard parts.

@zodwraith5745

Жыл бұрын

Ironically Dell and HP make quite competent servers. It's their desktop offerings that rank below a wish computer.

@JanMoren

Жыл бұрын

The budget for designing this hardware is a bit different from that of a mass-market corporate desktop. Also, as these are practically always sold with a support contract, Dell people are the ones who need to be able to fix them, as quickly and efficiently as possible. Probably worth spending the money and time to get the design right.

@andyruse4670

Жыл бұрын

@@zodwraith5745 Don’t know about HPs desktops, but their omen laptops are more repairable than other “gaming” laptops. No soldered components, a repair guide that makes it obvious that they were designed to come apart if the end user needed to fix them. I’m reasonably sure their omen desktops even use off the shelf components, saw one tear down feature a cooler master PSU. They just for some unknown reason use a crap tastic case.

@ConditionsCloudy

Жыл бұрын

It's not just Dell, unfortunately. HP, Lenovo, Acer, etc. Basically all of them are guilty of it in some models somewhere in their product stack.

@andyruse4670

Жыл бұрын

@@ConditionsCloudy For sure, I was just saying that HP has at least one line where they avoid the custom everything horseshit. Dell throws that garbage on everything, Alienware being especially egregious.

Steve & Wendell together in a video is always a treat. :D

I didn't expect this video to be as interesting as it was, and now it's one of my all-time favorite videos from you guys. EVERYTHING in that is just so well-planned out and I can't imagine how much engineering it took to make something so compact yet have an unbelievable ease of use.

@nutzeeer

Жыл бұрын

And in 10 years when hardware is 10x as fast the same performance should cost like 7k

@twogruden9943

Жыл бұрын

yes it's very a-peeling

@falxonPSN

Жыл бұрын

@@nutzeeer yup. It'll cost the same to buy as one month's power bill. The bad news is the power bill won't depreciate.

"We don't do that here" 😂😂

Can confirm on the double-stacked fan designs that rackmount gear normally uses. They have two sets of counter-rotating blades because you want the air to actually hit the blades and be propelled by them. the issue is though, when air is moved by a fan it introduces some rotation to it, and when you sling another fan in front of that already spinning air and that fan co-rotates, its effectiveness is reduced significantly, and can actually impede airflow while making the fan even louder than normal. so to get around this, you have counter-rotating blades. A lot of manufacturers will also change the blade profiles of one of the fans to ensure a balance of high airflow and high static pressure can be achieved. this is especially important in 1U rackmounted systems as their fans can't be any larger than 40mm, so airflow comes at a bit of a premium. In larger system fans as well, such as 60 and 80mm double-stacked units, the fan may also have additional stator set in the frame that is designed to remove the vorticity generated by the rotation of the fan blades. these styles of fan are normally used in 2U servers especially, as removing that vorticity from the airflow makes it easier to more evenly and accurately split the airflow throughout the system, reducing the chances of a dead-spot in the airflow.

@or2kr

Жыл бұрын

Crucially, those fans aren't really redundant as they require both fans to run to deliver the full performance. Usually axial fans just have a pressure-airflow curve that is basically a straight line, but by adding a second counterrotating fan it is able to deliver a pressure-airflow curve like a centrifugal/blower fan, almost doubling the airflow at the operating point. And you definitely need that if you want to cool 3kW in a 2U server. I'm kinda sad that they didn't inspect the fan further, you could definitely try it by hooking it up to a normal PSU, or at least show the model number and show the actual current figure. Because 60W isn't really much anymore, something like the Sanyo Denki 9CRB0812P8G001 has a rated power draw of 110W, four of those is more than what my entire PC consumes

@DigBipper188

Жыл бұрын

@@or2kr Yeah, agreed on that. It's pretty damn impressive how much current a lot of server grade cooling fans actually draw. Even the little 40mm jobbies in 1U servers can pull north of a couple amps at full power.

Wendell’s excitement is so pure and contagious. Any time he’s with GN, it’s an absolute treat to watch.

I just came from the LTT video. I don't seem to be able to escape Wendell. Thanks for the great video!

@hotstovejer

Жыл бұрын

Wendell travels via telecom rack. You can't escape him.

@tardvandecluntproductions1278

Жыл бұрын

He's inside your pc

@popcorny007

Жыл бұрын

Could you link the LTT video with Wendell? Searching for "LTT Wendell" or "Linus Tech Tips Wendell" comes up blank, and their thumbnails/titles don't help either.

@slartibartfast2649

Жыл бұрын

@Grey-man m.kzread.info/dash/bejne/rJeXyqauZ67VidY.html It's not a collab really, they just use Wendell's Threadripper workstation for a video and give him a shout out.

@popcorny007

Жыл бұрын

@@slartibartfast2649 Thank you!

That opener LOL

I love seeing the two of you together. Also, Steve's putting down the GPU when Wendell said the price of it was, well, priceless...

This thing is exactly why Intel is trying to get into GPU's. And exactly why they won't *ever* ditch the GPU market.

@TheNerd

Жыл бұрын

yep, theres a lot of money in data centers.

Im thrilled and amazed how AMD improved their technology. Thanks so our eupwerwomen dr.Lisa Su and their engineers... Been waiting more than 15 years to see AMD logo on my PC and finally got It...

Steve's reaction to handling high cost parts: 16:22 Linus' reaction to high cost parts: *tosses card around*

@scarletspidernz

Жыл бұрын

Linus has expensive insurance Rest of us would treat the hardware like Steve 😂

@YeOldeTraveller

Жыл бұрын

Steve has to pay for his toys. Linus does not.

I’m hard coded to play the L1T theme songs in my head when Wendell talks.

@tanmaypanadi1414

Жыл бұрын

I just randomly catch myself humming the tune .

As a Data Center Engineer as of recent (3+ months) I’m enjoying this type of content from you guys even more!

@ambhaiji

Жыл бұрын

Can you please give us a brief roadmap as to how you reach such a position? Knowledge Path and Career Path?

@runforestrunfpv4354

Жыл бұрын

@@ambhaiji experience and connections. Comptia server+ helps I heard.

I really enjoy your collaborations with Wendell. If you've never watched level 1 news, I highly recommend it. Informative and entertaining.

My favorites, Gamers Nexus + Level1Techs in one Video, I love it!

AWS hardware engineer here: I can confirm this server requires hearing protection to operate around, especially if you have a full rack of these...

The humor is getting better and better! That intro and the acting/timing!

Loved the video Steve, Wendell and GN! I work in a Data Center each day working as a Network Architect and seeing stuff like this is always awesome! And yeah, those rooms get EXTREMELY loud!

There's so much power in that server it's warping the mod mat. lol

I've been watching some of the older vids from 2 years ago when you were pulling apart servers with Wendell. Super happy to see a new one. Love teardowns of components and devices that I, as a regular consumer, probably will never see in real life.

what a truly lovely video. you two have great chemistry and that server was INSANE

Oatmeal indeed, but it's got cinnamon & maple syrup! I just wish we could get the Bar-Talk between Steve, Wendell, Gordon, and Ian after a few drinks... Or even better, a podcast!

The ammount of engineering that went into that server is just mindblowing. It's insane how much computing and power you can fit into such a tiny space if you have the talent, money and time. Really wanna see a teardown of one of those MCM GPUs in the future.

damn, good to see Wendell again, i've been off the loop of tech news for some years now but it was always a pleasure to hear him, and amazing to hear him again

Watched that intro over and over, love it. Expression says it all

collabs with Wendell are fantastic, he's something else)

I use to be a Data Center Engineer for HPE - Absolutely loved working on ProLiants, Blades, Synergy's and Apollo based servers. This video brings back good memories.

Glad to see the Wendell collab, hope we see more in the future.

Is this my day? I was just doing some deep dive into ROCm, and there it is Wendell with MI210 !! And when he said "multiple videos"... Music to my ears, my heart just started singing :DD

Nice to see you here Wendell! Logan also looks good with his hair grown back up!

I love the Wendell and Steve collaborations. Hopefully more of them in the future!

Awesome, love both of you guys. Great content as always!

This video was just great. Thanks for sharing with us and having Wendell on showing us just how awesome this thing really is.

Some time ago I had a junior tech job at a company building super computers. Supermicro was one of the hardware manufacturer we worked with. The run for dense systems was insane and more than often we had to find solution for the enormous power consumption and power distribution. Another big point is initial power consumption on startup. If you have a rack of those beasts and all systems are startet synchronized, it most likely leads to a flying safety fuse. The supermicro systems are designed really well and the manufacturing is on another level. I met systems scoring a top 100 and better, systems having more memory than my own pc had disk capacity, single CPUs which cost more than my car and insanely high throughput network (Mellanox 56Gbps at that time). It was a great time for me, learning a lot each day and having a deep insight on this field. Thanks for showing the system and creating a nostalgia moment for me.

I love Wendell so much, such awesome company to be around.

I know absolutely nothing about servers and supercomputers. Honestly, when I saw the title and thumbnail, I thought I probably wouldn't care about this video because I'm only into home PCs... I'm happy I was wrong and that I watched this. I was glued to my screen and in awe of the density and perfect engineering of this - and all of it cooled by 4 fans! I can't wrap my head around what I just watched! Also, I loved Steve's shifty eyes when Wendell mentions the price of the Instinct card. 😆

This is perhaps the greatest collab on YT since GN and Jay did the XOC-"competition"... holy hell, this is pure awesome!

Yay Wendell! Love seeing him taking these trips to everyone.

Two of the most techie tech-bros on YT at the same time, gotta love it!

Ok I understood about 30% of what was going on but that's why I love Steve' and GN content. Wendell is awesome too love his channel

@TalesOfWar

Жыл бұрын

Don't worry, even Steve looked confused at some of this haha!

Steve is so excited and terrified at the same time. Luv it! Great vid

Wendell is always an amazing guest star, he could have a whole career just showing up in other tech KZreadrs' videos, and yet he has his fantastic channel to boot.

Thanks for having my buddy Wendell on! Besides being an ultra tech wiz, he does the best Fozzi Bear looks!

I love your dynamic SOOOO much... Thank you Tech Jesus and WENDELL! :)

It's always fun to see guys like Steve and Linus coming to Wendell when things get really complicated.

Ngl, I hit the thumbs up as soon as I saw Steve's expression while Wendell was peeling the plastic. 😂

When _Wendell_ says it's the most powerful computer he's ever worked with, you know it's serious stuff.

@bernds6587

Жыл бұрын

for that price it better be

I worked in a banking datacentre for 6 years. We has about 1500 servers like this. One build of 150 servers had a $5 million build price. The internet banking servers were a 4 cluster array, each one a quad CPU board with 256GB of memory, the 4th cluster was a hot swap cluster, and the entire thing was mirrored at another data centre.

As always, another great episode!! Looking forward to GN server re-do....Thankx Steve!!

Nice to see Wendell as guest on GN. Can't wait for him to get this server running.

Wedel is always such a win. scary what you could do with a few of these, let alone hundreds

@LtdJorge

Жыл бұрын

Run Crysis on CPU on a cluster

What a great collab two of the best tech channels

Always great to see a Wendell Level1Tech colab

Great to see my two favourite tech channels coming together to make content, keep up the good work!

Always happy to see Wendell on GN, he always got something cool to share!

I will take two. For heating this winter :) Thumbs up for all those collabs lately.

I do find it sweet that i see this stuff on GN, ill probably never get into server stuff, but just getting a general understanding of that world its pretty interesting.

Thank You Gamers Nexus, Nice to see a SkyNet Box!

The way you two start the video is amazing haha

bravo! what an incredible machine! I can't wait to fire up those FP32/64 systems!! kudos to the crew!! so exciting, what the future holds in store! good luck !

Great content. What a beast of a server. I love that you aren't afraid to show products that most of us would never even know exist.

Love the guest videos, more visits from Wendell too please!

Great Content, and always good seeing Wendell and his servers

You *_HAVE_* to use that sound bite of Wendell yelling when you're doing fan review methodology or anything fan review related.

Cool to see wendell. Last time I watched him was way back during tek syndicate.

i know this is not GNs cup of tea but I absolutely love videos of hardware like these 🤘

Customer: We need more density Dell/HP/Lenovo: Its not possible you cannot break the laws of physics Supermicro: Its true you cannot break the laws of physics ...... but you can bend them .

@YeOldeTraveller

Жыл бұрын

In fairness, they are solving a different problem. In most data centers these days, the ultimate issue is heat. When you can already max out the heat budget for a rack, making the system denser is not a win. Also, there is a service cost to higher density. HPE also sells support, and the higher density systems require more effort if the technician needs to replace something.

"It's appealing." Goddamn it, I love this guy so much.

As someone who worked in IBM p-series servers, it's fun watching new server stuff. I kinda miss building racks of them.

Wendell!!! Always great when he is on.

I love this channel. Being exposed to all this different hardware is amazing. Definitely checking out his channel as well!

It's comforting to know that Wendel is a proud punster.

I see wendell is a true gamers nexus viewer

Good Show. I watch Level 1 anyway. Nice to see you Hardware guys interact sometimes.

I see Steve and Wendell, I automatically smash like.

@darreno1450

Жыл бұрын

Yep, that's a good team.

I want Wendell to take an I.Q. test, I guarantee it's north of 180

That pun at the beginning ahaha! Didn't expect that. Nice vid

I can listen to Wendell server talk all day even though I have not nor will use this grade of equipment.

Given my lack of experience and knowledge but armed with a KZread video, when I upgraded an old laptop last weekend with new paste/memory/drive/OS I was sweating bullets even though the whole thing had little value. Watching Steve and Wendell tear this thing apart was a whole other level of terror for me! I'm so grateful for the out-of-sequence edit showing it all put back together. Now I might actually be able to sleep tonight. Thanks for a fascinating video that I mostly don't even understand! Looking forward to the "oatmeal" content!

@Trainguyrom

Жыл бұрын

Its amazing how different it feels handling gear at work vs at home. I used a desktop PC with a bad Ethernet port that could probably go for $300 on ebay as a wheel chock while loading a trailer with similar ewaste*, meanwhile at home I'd be fashioning some sort of frankenstien of adapters to keep that same PC going for another year or five just to save a few bucks *said eWaste went to a friend of a friend of the IT director to sort through and presumably stick the Cisco switches and whatever desktops were salvageable on ebay pay for the cost to recycle the rest with a metal recycler

yay nice to see Wendell working with you again.^^

5:45 - The sticker says ATI :) Makes my Canadian heart smile

Level1Techs is such an underrated channel. :-)

We loves us some Wendell! Always a fun time when he brings his toys for show & tell.

I love that the most advanced stuff has gone back to basically a mini version of ribbon cable.

Wendell had soft and steady hands, perfect for handling this sort of thing

Thank you for inducing me to Wendell, I will now go subscribe to his channel

its really hard for me to wrap my head around this system... absolutely bananas

BADASS!.. thanks for the tour of that crazy thing.