A few notes for you (I have a SM server mobo as my desktop machine): a) The mobo looks for active fans at startup, if you unplug any of them after boot, it forces all the others to maximum RPM. This is a fail-safe in the event a critical fan dies. b) The BIOS controls the fan speed by default. Some BIOSes have a server/workstation fan setting, workstation being the quieter of the two. I don't recall fancontrol working with the SM mobo. c) The beeps at startup when you were using on-board VGA are normal startup beeps duh-duh---duh----------dee. d) Server mobos take FOREVER to post anytime you change the hardware/plug/unplug something.

Server motherboards are a strange other world apart from desktop/workstation boards. Different conventions, different defaults, different expectations. You realize just how 'user friendly' your typical consumer desktop computer motherboard is by comparison.

@xanZion1

5 жыл бұрын

porklaser Enterprise grade hardware is built for uptime and longevity. I have a few Sun Microsystems boxes from 2002 that still run websites for me 24/7, 365. 👍

@holdenger

5 жыл бұрын

Sir Intellitoke SPARC goodness

CPUs aren't "idle" in POST/BIOS, they run with no power saving modes. 0% load, but full clock and voltage (maybe even turbo).

70°C is perfectly fine for those CPUs under synthetic heavy load.

@CanuckGod

5 жыл бұрын

I've gotten my E5-2680 to roughly that under heavy load transcoding with Handbrake, it's not that big a deal.

@NFreund

5 жыл бұрын

94°C on some Dell Servers at work. Dell says totally "that's fine!". (Mind you, climate controlled server room...)

@madr1x

5 жыл бұрын

@@NFreund as long as you dont hit thermal shutdown or throttling, all's good

@kayceem2335

5 жыл бұрын

Hes new to this stuff hehe :) my xeons throttle once in a while and run at 80 90 under load its totally normal. Hes just used to older stuff where 70c was insane ie pentiun 3

@IanC14

5 жыл бұрын

I get worried that my GPU runs at around 70c under load. Though I've never seen the CPU get higher than around 30c

EPS-12V != PCIE Power!

@TobyCowles

5 жыл бұрын

you can cut and rewire it if you don't want to wait for an adapter to ship. I had to do that for my server.

@kienanvella

5 жыл бұрын

this^. I actually ran my dual Opteron workstation with 1xEPS and 1x rewired PCIE power connector for more than a year before I got a better PSU with 2x EPS connectors.

@thedungeondelver

5 жыл бұрын

I set a hard drive on fire making this mistake.

@Humaricslastcall

4 жыл бұрын

Also 24P != Molex

most newer power supplies have dual 8 pin cpu power if u get a higher wattage model. as some of the current model consumer grade mobo now have dual 8 pin cpu power for overclocking.

@TechTangents

5 жыл бұрын

I'll get into this more in one of the later videos, but the motherboard actually has two 8pin sockets and two 4pin. So I'd need a pretty weird PSU to get all that. Even this super micro one doesn't have all the connectors. I think the two 4pins could be "optional" but I would rather have them connected. If they are optional then it will just mean lower power throughput through all the power cables.

@mraaron1584

5 жыл бұрын

even on the new 32 core tread rippers connecting both are optional unless u are doing extreme overclocking.

@mraaron1584

5 жыл бұрын

the extra 4s are probably for pushing extra power in the pci-e slots back when 4 way sli and crossfire was a thing a bunch of boards had that so u could get extra juice into all those high powered cards.

@daviddavidsonn3578

5 жыл бұрын

my mobo has dual 8 PIN CPU power connectors, but I only need one

@bryceforsyth8521

5 жыл бұрын

@@mraaron1584 I have a 6 pin PCIe power socket for pushing extra power to the PCIe slots, as well as three 8 pin CPU power sockets on one of my X99 boards.

Those double beeps on post are the super microboard acknowledging USB devices

I worked with a similar MB a few years ago, here are some thoughts you may find useful: 1. The long boot sequence is normal, especially if you changed something, takes quite a while for the BIOS to detect and set the new hardware configuration. Also those beeps are not all error codes, some are preset "reports" firing up as the BIOS switches from one configuration to another. For example when you insert a PCI video card it will first beep for detecting it in the slot and than one more time when it saves the new hardware config (same thing when you remove said card, but the beeps sequence may be different). 2. Those CPUs have higher thermal tolerance than their equivalent PC generation, 70C is well within their normal operating range, you should start getting worried only if they go over 90C. 3. The original case cooling isn't designed just for the CPUs, some of the onboard components also require passive cooling, so in the new case make sure you have a constant uni-directional air flow passing over the entire board. 4. If you're gonna use that many hard drives you should consider a dual-PSU build, it's more reliable in the long run and probably cheaper than one big enough to provide that much power.

When you first powerup the motherboard with +5VSB you need to wait 1 minute for the BMC to boot up. BIOS will wait until the BMC starts up... So wait a bit.

@22:55 "WE ARE SPEAKING TO YOU FROM THE YEAR ONE-NINE-NINE-NINE..."

@jordananderson8299

5 жыл бұрын

How do you know!? I can't even hear or see anything say that

@thedungeondelver

5 жыл бұрын

@@jordananderson8299 It's a reference to John Carpenter's sci-fi/horror film _Prince of Darkness_

@jordananderson8299

5 жыл бұрын

@@thedungeondelver What's that show have to do with anything in the video during the timelapse? I don't get it

Have you tried reseating the cpu's ... In my 13 years at hp I've seen many a memory problem caused by bad CPU contact on big old servers especially after they've been removed from the rack for servicing.

@akBKuKu instead of using cpu info and lmsensors you can use i7z and it will list all cores clocks and temps and you can have it poll updates as well.

"Its time for a layed back video today" SuperMicro onboard video: "imma 'bout to end this whole mans career"

35 min and 46 secends of server goodness with our man.... 32 cores... *begins drooling* 96 GB of ram... *drool rate expands to the rate of a waterfall* 16 hot swap bays... *drool becomes so powerful that no mere being can stop it, not even thanos with that snap, the drool overpowers the snap*

@TechTangents

5 жыл бұрын

The full series is 1hr 46m so you're in for a lot more server goodness!

@SAMISCOOL510

5 жыл бұрын

the drool will never stop...

@billy-waynejeffcoat4828

5 жыл бұрын

Also not to sound like a dick but it's 32 threads, so it's 16 cores. Still good for personal server standards

@SAMISCOOL510

5 жыл бұрын

i know it's not 32 cores, so what, the joke is still funny even if one piece of info is wrong...

@billy-waynejeffcoat4828

5 жыл бұрын

@Kryštof Píštěk yes but a virtual core cannot pull the same weight as a physical. I was just trying to correct a misconception. It's still a nice server and I would love to have it.

$100 shipping for that much hardware is actually not a bad deal, tbh.

Hi All, Nice progress video, exotic hardware does get tricky, but also need to remember these parts are used in enterprise / server senario where they are stored on air conditioned rooms and the proper case has LOUD high volume multiple case fans, under those conditions i can understand why the BIOS would not need much control over the fan speed etc because the ambient air in those server rooms would be cold aircon eg 12-20 degrees C All you need is software to make use of all of those cores and processing power :) Regards George

@subg9165

5 жыл бұрын

"Hi All"? "Regards"? What is this, 2001 email or something?

I've been working with enterprise grade equipment and especially supermicro stuff for the past 10 years and i've gotta say i've never seen some of these issues you're having! you have an incredible amount of patience my friend.

Great video man ! A joy to watch these kind of videos ! Keep up the good work 👍

The base of those coolers are typical for a cooler when the heatpipes have a direct contact to the heatspreader (or GPU)

Unplugging/plugging 12V fans on-the-fly is a really ingenious idea. You were not lucky enough to see your mobo go up in flames tho.

My current PC (since a few days) is a Supermicro CSE-815 1U Server since I needed a motherboard for two Xeon E5540s I got for around 5€ and the case with PSU, motherboard, risers and coolers was just around 70€ on Ebay. But because of noise reduction, it's currently missing all it's original fans and it's original PSU. I did it similar to you with just mounting regular fans ontop on the 1U heatsinks but with cable ties and, apart from that, connecting a regular 350W PSU with makeshift adapters for the two 8 pin power sockets. Also, my 750Ti had to be a bit modified and cut and is now just sticking up out of the server because it would be too wide for the PCIe Risers. It works fine as of right now, let's hope it'll stay this way

Dealing with server grade or high end workstation hardware all day long, the first point I’ll make is that although there are “standards” no manufacturer seems to stick to them (Dell, HP I’m looking at you here). So piecing together hardware is always going to be a *cough* fun time :) On a side note, I’ve just finished building a new workstation at home out of an old Dell T7500 (similar-ish age) But I had the benefit of having a “matching” hardware at least for the basics (mobo, PSU, cpu, etc). But it does render Premiere quite well :)

You just can't say "This is" without putting emphasis on "This", do you. :D

@JanghanHong

5 жыл бұрын

a lot of radio folks do that, to separately enunciate words that happen to rhyme.

@matthew8077

5 жыл бұрын

It's like Doug Demuro

@eduardoavila646

5 жыл бұрын

Sounds so awesome! It's so sad there isn't a word that works that well in portuguese :/

I actually have a similar server: two E5-2680 (16 cores 32 threads too,) 128GB RAM (and it is still a half loaded motherboard allowing me to go 256GB,) 8 hot swap bays with 6 drives installed, on an Asus Z9PE-D16C/2L motherboard. I am using it as a general purpose workstation now so it has an AMD R9 380 graphics card, an 1TB NVMe SSD boot drive (I modded my BIOS for that,) and an Asus Xonar DGX sound card. I have to use the expensive Windows 10 Pro Workstation to make it work properly with 128GB RAM. In an future upgrade I will remove the hot swap bays (since being a workstation that 1TB NVMe SSD is enough) and upgrade the graphics to a used GTX 1070 or better.

I actually had a similar problem with a Gigabyte PC motherboard with the VGA connection, the internal VGA did not output any video at all but memory was assigned to it when activated in BIOS.

Next time use "watch -n 1 sensors" to have sensors be executed once per second

Nice work! I also own a SuperMicro board, it's an X8DTN+ EEATX board that was also unfortunately damaged in shipping - the corner is bent and the dual gigabit ethernet controller is dead. Anyways, here's a couple of things to note about it that might also apply to yours: A) You can use literally any standard PSU on it. I used to use an RM850i Corsair unit with two 8pin CPU cables, but I also got a VS550 working with the 8 pin and a dual molex to 8pin adapter. B) The weird beeps before the final POST OK beep is the computer registering connected USB devices. Depending on the device it'll generate a high or low pitch beep. I don't know why. C) My board is older (2010 1366 Xeons) but I doubt much had changed by the time yours came out. D) My heatsink setup was worse. I bought two Cooler Master Hyper 103 CPU coolers for my board but they required their own backplates. To install them I had to take the entire retention mount systems for the CPUs out to fit the coolers in. It worked, but it was dodgy as all hell. E) EEATX boards suck. Plenty of space for GPUs and 18 RAM slots are nice...but they are HELL to find a case for. I never did. F) Respects paid.

Nice I got lucky on a And duel CPU system 16x2 and 256gb of ddr3 Ecc ram $500 lol its going into a Roswell 4u chassis this week with 10 120mm corsair ML fans love seeing what you do with this mine currently sits as overpowered htpc/file server for network. Until I learn how to make it export server for Sony Vegas.

Ah yes, old servers... I remember watching Linus video bout the cheap 8 core "gaming" setup and spending countless hours on local ad sties, only to abandon the idea completely. Just watching you, trying to configure and troubleshoot this thing, I get cold sweat again. Never again such nightmare!!! The words "comparability hell" get whole new meaning in this play field...

@CanuckGod

5 жыл бұрын

Depends on what you're running, there are modern Chinese motherboards (complete with USB 3 and M.2 PCI-E) working nicely with the E5-2680 I have in my main PC running Windows 10. The issue for this build is more that it's a dual CPU in a server-specific motherboard designed for a rackmount, which it presents its own config issues...

epicest series you've done imo

I have a supermicro 2u box that physically broke afew months back, tbh after see the problems you had with that motherboard, I kinda don't want to fix my box. My poweredge 720xd is far more friendlier and actually works. Hope for the best on your endeavors on that system, it's gonna be one hell of an upgrade from that XServe.

Good option for watercooling mate, set that bad boy up, check out the SilverStone NT06-PRO V2 CPU Air Cooler

The fans going faster in the other connector is a failsafe mode. If a critical fan dies, it ramps all the other fans up to full speed to compensate that.

My Supermicro X10DAX makes the same beeps. I can confirm what others have said; you're OK. Also, I wouldn't stress out about CPU temperatures below 85C. 70C at full load seems fine to me.

The difference is that one has a higher number, and a higher number means it's better!

you can go lower then ambient on heatpipe air cooler the thing is heatpipe is designed this way, that fluid which is inside is evaporating, hence cooling to evaporation temperature, which is most cases below ambient temperature you are not cooling by passing heat around metal, but by removing heat by evaporation, which can cool below ambient see for yourself - boil water on gas (no, not electric). Flame would in range of at least 400C (as it can easily melt copper), you can get parts of pot to this temperature, but what is touching water directly won't get hotter then water evaporation point, no matter hot how your ambient would be (you can make ambient 200C and still water won't ever cross 100C unless you will raise pressure here it same thing This was my first surprise when I switched to heatpipe cooler my room was good 35C (I have had constant puddle of sweet below my chair) and CPU temp reported by CPU itself was 20C and by temperature sensor on MotherBoard (directly below CPU) was 30C

there are no "cpu fan" headers cause servers dont run temperature based fan courves, they are usually always on max setting to efficiently cool the cpus and the rest of the internals

@dlinkster

3 жыл бұрын

That’s not entirely true. Most Supermicro boards don’t generally specify what header should be used for the CPUs. You get to pick the header. I have several different Supermicro boards and none of them explicitly states which header should be for the CPU.

My SuperMicro X10 board has a jumper to enable or disable the ASPEED IPMI device's video controller. Also, the IPMI is responsible for fan control, with multiple fan control options: Standard, Full, Heavy IO, and Optimal. With my low noise fans, I had to use IPMITool in Linux to adjust the lower thresholds for the fans, or else it would repeatedly panic and spin them up to 100%. EDIT: silly me, commenting before reaching the end of the video. Looks like you found a bunch of the things already.

Older server Mobos were not designed for dynamic fan speed. The fan speed was expected to be full. Because a server farm is going to have the airflow to deal with it, nd noise level was not an issue.

you got lucky that the board survived the ordeal, i had seen the worse case that the board was dead because someone plug the pcie 8-pin to 8-pin atx connector.

Supermicro server boards has a custom front panel header that's 'standardised' for their own chassis... Though you can make them work with non-supermicro cases.

hi guy. i don't have time right now to watch your videos but just wanted to mention its really important to replace the CMOS battery!!! When they start to go bad there are a bunch of problems like disabled Ram Sockets and crashing issues among other things. I was using Ubuntu Mate as main OS for a while but it had very slow boot times. Switched over to Manjaro Mate and booting is much faster. Had to set boot to UEFI in Bios. I disabled hyperthreading in Bios because it works better without it. Anyways i am using an old Dell server with a graphics card as my desktop computer (not running as a virtual machine) System Specs: Dell R410 Server Manjero Mate 64 bit Processors: 2 Intel Xeon X5570@ 2.93Ghz (4 cores each) Graphics: GeForce GT 730/PCIe/SSE2 with Proprietary Nvidia 455.38 Driver installed. RAM: 32GB And Yes of coarse Compiz Window Manager I wish someone told me this stuff when i started out. All the Best !!!

You can get mini graphics card (Not low profile), GTX 650, 750, 1050 and a few others

@TechTangents

5 жыл бұрын

Davinci Resolve needs boatloads of VRAM. So I'll need a beefier GPU to be able to do rendering.

@TechTangents

5 жыл бұрын

I forgot I didn't get to that in this video yet, I want this to be a render server.

@danmandras972

5 жыл бұрын

AkBKukU iirc they do also make mini 1070s and 1080s, especially Zotac

@hankbizzo5

5 жыл бұрын

@@TechTangents www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=9SIAHFV8J01503 then 3d print a mount

@jm036

5 жыл бұрын

@@TechTangents Get a GTX 1060 6GB then. They even make LP versions of those.

Having problems with computers is really the "curse of the druaga1 family"

My X8DTH-6F Mother Bord Was Labeld Upside Down for the power,reset leds,all ..Now Ask Me How I Figured That One Out ..lol !! Cool Video Thanks For Sharing !

Use pcie riser to connect the cards. There are cables to make x16, or powered risers like on gpu miners, to do 1x link (card works fine, data bus reduced). Card will have to be mounted wonky tho.

You should shout out Costa Rica, because one of those processors were made here! Unfortunately, the Intel plant in Costa Rica is basically shutting down, after over two decades, just go somewhere where it is cheaper.

I've always wanted to make my own server

Hmm.. I wonder if fancontrol can poke the i2c bus on this board to give you manual control? I've done this on other server/embedded boards and set auto fan control this way before.

Sooo just got to the bit where you moved headers I’ll have to test on my motherboard now as see interesting

if you can solder, you can make a decent little fan controller that will sense the temperature and adjust fan speed accordingly. allso if i had those kinda heatsinks, a push-pull fan config would be something i would not leave out. not hard to do it, and its a whole different world.

I hope to build a Dual Socket 2011 server sometime but I'm on the lookout for an EVGA SR-X

Yeah, SuperMicro boards are like "what mate"? That RAM is likely ECC Registered, 96GB is probably a few hundred bux worth of RAM.

@rasz

5 жыл бұрын

ecc registered ddr3 is free if you know people in business, a ton of it is thrown away at this point

@IanC14

4 жыл бұрын

@@rasz yeah I got 4gb for a HP Microserver for under £13 a month or so back.

Your life would be a lot easier if you buy into SuperMicro as a complete solution. Pick your motherboard and find a compatible chassis on the site. Or buy them together as a Super Server. The power, cooling, and front panel IO are all taken care of. They use a consistent pinout for the front panel that just comes as one ribbon cable to the panel. So much easier than fiddling with 2-pin headers. If you do that, it will make these piecemeal solutions that get cobbled together seem ridiculous in comparison. I speak from experience doing things the hard way. They do a good job with integration, and the pricing is fair. Just go with it. :-)

Many servers come with external monitor output disabled for security reasons. You're supposed to just be using the built-in networked KVM feature. Normally, that has a setting somewhere to enable video out if you still need it.

I just picked up this board on ebay, what a nightmare, doesn't boot, nothin on screen, i just hear beeps. Tried with dedicated video card same result. Will this board work with just a single 8 pin CPU connector? will it a least boot up or i need to get a splitter ?

Where did u get the server chassis from? Thanks Ben

When I hear "zeon" I am all in

CPUS tempt to run REALLY hot in bios, as they are at the max powerstate and voltage usually , i had my tiny apu (A8 3870) run super hot in bios (close to 70) , but when i booted into a linux live cd, it was sitting at a comfy 30c

@IanC14

5 жыл бұрын

Weirdly when I upgraded to a Ryzen I get lower temps than I did with my A8-7650K

if you're using the recommend bitrates shouldn't youtube be able to properly handle the 4k60hz??

Supermicro names just roll off the tounge. I had an X9DRL-IF at one point atx dual socket.

@dlinkster

3 жыл бұрын

Lol. I do wonder where they pick their names. I have a bunch of Supermicro boards.

Actually running a X79 board with an 8-core/16 thread Xeon E5-2680 (Socket 2011) and 32 GB ECC RAM as my main PC, so I like seeing videos with Xeons used :)

My system runs fine with a splitter on the 8 pin cpu connector from the PSU for dual connections

Aha Welcome to enterprise equipment. It's all specific built. Fans run much faster and match the heat sinks. Go water cooling with high end you have room. Usually, you have a board to use multiple power supply and in 4u, you may have as many as 5 power supply of 430W... And the fans are supposed to be super loud until the bmc (IPMI) starts.

for that server mobo you just have to get a modular atx psu with the possibility of using 2 8 pin cpu power connectors because in here each cpu requires it's own power connector because they pull quite a lot of power

it would make an awesome gaming rig motherboard

Maybe use an EK water kit to cool the cpus. U wont have a gpu limitation and with gone of those massive heatsinks u will have more space in the case.

Hrm. All your "this is stupid" is without relating to where this board is supposed to live, and under what conditions. In a 1U chassis, in a climate controlled area, with case-fans pulling cool in front and exhausting in the back. Glad to see that you made progress. Now on to part 2 :).

I run the same coolers there fine ran grate for years no worries here

I like your videos (and also servers) :-D

Couldn't you have taken off the fan clip and put on the other side of the fins?

The Dynatron font and logo looks like that of Aperture Labs. I can't be the only person who noticed that.

I just got two of those and i cant get the 2nd cpu to run .....i have 4 xeon 2660v2 10core each any good idea why .....thank u in advance

Nice keyboard man!

Why do you have such a high temp in your room? 30°C is incredibly hot?!

@BloodSprite-tan

5 жыл бұрын

86°F it must be like outdoors summer in there. or the thermometer is giving a false reading. over here my room temp is like 67°F (more like 20°C) it's -8°F outside.

@dyter424

5 жыл бұрын

Ugh, 30°C indoors in January seems just a bit high, even for Arizona...

@kyoudaiken

5 жыл бұрын

@@dyter424 Everything over 21°C is barbaric and inhumane!

@subg9165

5 жыл бұрын

Summer here in the UK was absolutely terrible. 30ºC all day, every day.

@CanuckGod

5 жыл бұрын

@@BloodSprite-tan Same, and for probably the same reasons, considering it was -20°C (-4°F) in Calgary yesterday... I have noticed my CPU tends to idle about 5-7C lower in the winter (mid 30s vs low 40s), so that's nice.

Dynatron? I don't know about their fans, but I quite like their music.

Check out the watch command in Linux. Would run your sensor command periodically.

I'm getting into servers, the closest computer to a server I have is a Raspberry Pi 2. You should make a guide for getting into servers for people like me.

You don't need VGA or video out! The BIOS on those models have serial support (both COM1, COM2 and SoL), GRUB as well, and Linux too! If you are into BSD, that works as well, the BTX bootloader too! COM1 or COM2 can be passed to SoL or you can use SoL directly if your bootloader and kernel supports it (GRUB2 does, as does Linux and the BIOS). SoL can be reached using ipmitool or using supermicro's IPMI/LOM/Whatever web interface, it has a Java Applet for that. Those often suck, but are better than no console. Alternatively, you can use the COM1 port or the COM2 pinheader for local access. The BIOS will detect that and switch to text mode automatically. All input and output is available, without VGA. Installer disks support this too. (well, Windows doesn't)

@johnkeates9434

5 жыл бұрын

Also: OpenBMC might be supported on that model giving you great SSH2 access to the BMC and SSH-Serial-over-LAN options!

For all the futzing around you should have just got the case with it.

16:45 what brand and model are these fans?

Hey, We use in our company Supermicro servers. Reset the bios and upgrade the firmware for IPMI and BIOS that should help with IPMI. Never try to change sething of impi using windows app this fill mess up config of IPMI and you will need to reset the bios. Also IPMI View app sometimes crashes.

13:32 - 14:26 Mildly satisfying

Damn... I have a 12 core 24 thread CPU server. It's way too powerful for what I use it for, what do you use this one for?

@IanC14

4 жыл бұрын

4k60 video editing.

how much does it cost? (i havent watched it yet)

Nice Model M key board, I need to track down some replacement keys for mine :(

Nice build! I aways wanted one of these systems, but unfortunatly these cost more than a car here where i live :/

For the On-board graphics, I wonder if the VGA connector may be unusual for server boards and be there only to support Intel HD Graphics, which means that unless the CPU has Intel HD Graphics (Xeon Chips do not) it will not work. EDIT: I see later in the video you mention you did get it working a few times, so probably a failed on-board Graphics chip.

somewhere- in a parallel universe- someone takes a computer component and it just works...not in this universe though- here we have to suffer- and it seems like the more actual knowledge you have- the worse it gets... or you are like me and don't know stuff and nothing works..also possible...

Superstitions about computer parts? That's basically me with anything that featured a VIA chipset.

@shockwaveexp3465

5 жыл бұрын

Jorge Ramos Ahh, reminds me of the XP days, blue screens and popping audio when using SB Audigy cards on a VIA chipset. nForce 4 was also a pain.

I know this is an old video but I don't think there are any LGA-2011 cpus with integrated graphics.

Can you do a vid about what your gonna do at LTX?

Applying the cement XD

My 1 u server case, has 2 pci slots, but only single slot cards will fit.

Yeah man, some Arctic Silver 5 I bought recently was kinda liquidy compared to how it used to be. Could be a coincidence, or they changed something about it.

2 cpus 2 cpu conectors.

14:52 I predict comments like "too much thermal paste", "too little thermal paste", "wrong application techniche", lol Btw, 31:12 i think you can use something like "watch sensors" or something like that to make a realtime monitoring that only rewrites the numers instead of rewriting the screen

That motherboard's "optimal" fan modes are like the Msi "silent cooling until you need it" shit I got a 2080ti tro and it got to 80 degrees doing NOTHING CAUSE THE FANS WEREN'T TURNING. So I had to scramble to go get the Msi afterburner beta that let you control fan curves and now it's fixed

While those CPU coolers are not the best design out there, you really don't need a true fixed connection between the aluminium and the copper pipes as all the heat will travel though the heatpipes anyway (still not the best setup on those coolers though as the heatpipes are way spread out). As for the VGA space issue, you could always just get some cheap Asetek based CLCs and mount them using the narrow 2011 mounting kit (store.asetek.com/), single 120mm radiator CLCs are fairly cheep these days as some are starting to age quite a bit (Zalman and Antec will be some of the better choices for cheaper old CLCs). Then just hook them up to the back if the 4u case has 120mm slots there or to the 120mm fans behind the HDDs. Should cool well and be far more space efficient for that board.

SuperMicro is such a pain to work on. I had a board that I had to move a jumper on just so it would stop using on board graphics and use my graphics card instead. It wouldn't let me change the setting in the BIOS