Comment by defrost
Ideally the consumer market gets flooded with surplus at cost or below server grade hardware flowing out in going out of business fire sales.
Ideally the consumer market gets flooded with surplus at cost or below server grade hardware flowing out in going out of business fire sales.
No. Up to you to cool. I use an Epyc based system as a home server and you can’t hear it. At a previous employer we built a cluster out of these and just water cooled them. Very easy.
This is a chassis and fan problem not a CPU problem. Some devices do need their own cooling if your case is not a rack mount. E.g. if you have a mellanox chip those run hot unless you cool them specifically. In rackmount use case that happens anyway.
not much use for the 100GB+ AI boards or server RAM for consumers. Tho homelab guys will be thrilled.
Enterprise wise, the used servers kinda always have been cheap (at least compared to MSRP or even after discount price), just because there is enough companies that want a feel good of having a warranty on equipment and yeet it after 5 years.