I Bought 64 CPU Cores From eBay For $400...

I bought 64 cores of CPU power from eBay for just   over six dollars a core surely  this is gonna go fine right [Music]   now I think these are the CPUs and  then I think these may be the coolers   and this is the motherboard that'll house all of  the madness so let's open this up first [Music]   oh yes shenzen [Music] oh we get a rear IO  Shield of not the worst quality at least   it's got the like squidgy stuff on the back and  some sort of cables very nice thank you [Music] finally getting there oh wow oh no way we've got  like a Ziploc anti-static bag I don't think I've   ever seen that before look at that oh look at  that monster now the first thing that punches   you in the face when you see this motherboard  are the two gargantuan sp3 sockets which house   AMD epic CPUs they are complex inducingly massive  sockets look at them next you'll notice that each   socket has eight Ram slots giving us a total of  16. oh there's some useful information down here   always populated Doom X1 first so I'm assuming  that's this one and this one oh there's a whole   bunch of jumpers down here which I'm guessing  of like various bios and startup settings and   is that that looks like a Micro SD card slot  that's fascinating oh what are these connectors   I've never seen those before CPU one SATA zero  to three oh that's cool when it comes to rear   IO we've got Mesozoic period port and a whole  bunch of ethernet they've really they've really   gone all in on ethernet here with that let's  see what epic CPUs we got to fill them sockets oh never mind this is a different box oh the coolers are also in here I see  [Music] wow that's quite a beefy looking   cooler we've got five heat pipes a decent bit  of fin stack and a powerful looking fan but   the most important part is that this cooler  actually has enough girth to satisfy an epic   CPU something that not many consumer coolers  can say so yeah I got two of these [Music]   finally we have our massive CPU I'm  really excited to see this thing let's   kind of do that oh I wonder if  this was Factory packaging or not   it really looks like it's not but it's not  a consumer grade product so I guess you   never know oh it's also got a little Ziploc  anti-static bag I really like that oh a tour and that's our CPU so this is a ryzen epic 7551  a 32 core 64 thread monster from 2016 which at   launched cost almost three thousand dollars and I  bought two of them for 400 off of eBay so they're   like definitely gonna work right foreign so  now comes the fascinating part where we see   what it's like mounting the CPU in here we've  got these three bolts that we need to undo I   wonder if the iFixit kit will have that bit this  actually kind of looks like it no way that's it   okay so this is number one that we undo oh they  just screwed one of them down okay very good   oh covers the socket now as  far as I understand it we just   kind of oh no no wait there's  this bracket ah there we go okay slide through like that and then and in this one and then I think we just [Music]   cool and then just like that we have a  mounted epic CPU so we've just got one   more to go and then we have huge  amounts of power foreign [Music]   and then when it comes to the CPU  Cooler I guess it just kind of goes on   like that right obviously you need to do thermal  paste I think I'm going to do like a cross and   then some dots so we'll see if it catches on fire  it clearly isn't enough and then we just pop this   bad boy on [Music] next I just kind of want to see  if it works so I'm gonna drop a single stick of   ram per CPU in hook this up to a power supply and  pray to Thor that it turns on and men will worry   about populating all of the ram channels I I don't  know where I'm gonna find another RAM for this   thing now for the first boot I'm gonna try some of  this jadak Rams that Patriot sent over just to see   if it works with like non-ecc memory I can't see  why it wouldn't but you never know with this kind   of stuff [Music] and after very not precariously  removing the m.2 standoff so I could Mount some   storage in this bad boy and dropping in a CMOS  battery I was ready to test fire this monster   go so now I just need a graphics  card to drop in here I think I'm   going to keep it in the family you  know uh so I'm going to use an AMD GPU   oh oh what because of how long the graphics  card is it hits these and then won't suck it   that's stupid hopefully it works in this bottom  one let's give it a try ah yes that fits very good   oh it looks promising things are lighting up  in places I just need to figure out how to   oh I think this is the front I oh that's under  the graphics card very good after spending quite   some time trying to jump start this Abomination  it became clear it wasn't jump starting yeah I   don't know this doesn't seem to be working oh it's  not responding to power at all even with no Ram in   it I don't know if server Hardware is different  or not but that's not a good sign but with a bit   of research I identified a potential solution ah  okay so big problem uh I didn't do enough research   going into this video which is quite normal that's  usually the case except this is server stuff so   the the problems are much bigger than they are  with consumer grain Hardware apparently but   the problem here could be potentially that this  motherboard may only support ECC Ram so none of   the ram that I have will work in this motherboard  and the problem is kind of compounded by the fact   that each one of the ram slots is a channel so for  me to run these CPUs that they're like full memory   Rebound with I'm gonna have to buy 16 sticks of  ECC Ram so this cheap mini core setup is turning   ruinously expensive real fast now I don't know  that that's the problem I feel like even with no   Ram in it we should at least get fans spinning or  something but it's not a consumer motherboard so I   don't know and either way I am eventually gonna  need the ram anyway so yeah with that let me go   bankrupt myself buying ECC Ram quickly [Music]  yay the massive amount of ECC Ram has finally   arrived I'm not 100 sure it's actually going  to work in this system because it doesn't have   specific listed compatibility but  so let's give it a try [Music]   can't believe all of this this is going into  one system [Music] I don't know I feel like   they need to start putting just a little bit RGB  on This Server crap I don't know what do you think okay so that is what 256 gigs worth of ram  looks like in 16 channels very nice I really   hope it turns on now now I've also swapped a  smaller graphics card and this is an RX 5700   XT off of AliExpress uh just so that  I can have easier access to like the   front i o connectors and stuff  because this one actually fits   in the top slot oh it still doesn't  work oh I think the graphics card out uh uh desperation growing I even consulted  the manual like some kind of loser but I   still couldn't get it running so I decided to  go through the definitely not tedious process of   removing all 700 sticks of RAM and CPUs and stuff  to see if I could figure out what wasn't working   oh no wow I clearly need to rethink my thermal  paste application that is not ideal although   that wouldn't be the reason why the system wasn't  booting it would just make it catch on fire while   running cinemage but let me remove this CPU  and see if we can get it running with just one   the CPU looks okay aside from like a little  spot over here but I I don't know I can't tell oh but it still doesn't work let me swap out  the one remaining Ram stick no that doesn't   work either okay so that still didn't work so  I think the next thing I'm gonna do is swap   the CPUs in this socket oh I am real worried to  see what the thermal paste application situation   is going to look like under here let's  a bit better than the other one actually now not wanting to drag this out too much I spent  the next couple of hours trying every combination   of CPU socket RAM and socket I and I just couldn't  get it working I I didn't make a bit of progress   we got some fans spinning at a point but that was  it but it did help me come to the conclusion that   one of the CPUs is definitely dead the other one  is just maybe dead and the motherboard is maybe   dead after that I decided to take the whole setup  to a local recycling shop where the owner and I   spent a while trying all of his various ECC RAM  sticks in here and we also couldn't get it running   so Kevin and I came to the conclusion that this  suspiciously cheap server Hardware that I bought   off of eBay it just isn't working it's it's broken  so that's that's all I got for you today now I am   in talks with the seller who insists that it is  working uh so they're sending out a special kit   of ram which they say will definitely work with  it but once I see that not working I will still   make a concerted effort to get a setup like  this running from eBay parts so subscribe to   the channel if you don't want to miss that video  which will come out over the next couple of months   when I can get that going but for the foreseeable  future this did not work out so with that thank   you very much for watching another pointless  video and uh yeah until the next one bye [Music]

Channel: Dawid Does Tech Stuff

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Id: 75Mv9xc39QA

Length: 12min 39sec (759 seconds)

Published: Wed Aug 09 2023