Servers get all the cool stuff
Serve The Home.com often get cool servers and components in their lab, and take great photos; this month they got two niche server components that are just weird enough to be fascinating:
First up is a server GPU, the Nvidia A16, with four GPU chips on one board; usually a GPU has only one chip on its board. The chips are the Nvidia Ampere GA107, the smallest chip using the Ampere architecture, and the chip used in the GeForce RTX 3050 desktop and laptop GPUs. Serve The Home says quad chip cards like this are often used for servers providing virtual desktops.
Like most server processors it has a passive cooler, relying on the big fans in the rack server to blow air through the cooler, like this rack server:
Next up is a small liquid cooler designed to fit in narrow 1U rack servers:
Look at those three tiny fans! For context, a typical liquid cooler for desktop PCs looks like this:
The Dynatron is so small because it’s made to fit in 1U rack servers:
Main sources: Serve The Home.com’s Nvidia A16, Dynatron L31 and Supermicro ARS-210M-NR articles
