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Hi, I present you guys my crazy Idea that should work in paper, I'm posting here to have more second opnions:
I'm planning in making an "diy 5 blade 2u server", using the new Ryzen 3400g with 5 miniATX a320m-hd
The struggle that we are having is besides the chassis that we already have one, is the power.

We are planning in using one 750w Modular PS, but the problem is, how and if its even possible to use one PS to power 5 24-pin  and 5 4-pin slots for the 5 "servers" in this chassis?

Just resumming the configuration:
1 chassis with:
5 a320m-hd
5 Ryzen 3400g
10 8Gb DDR4
5 m2 SSD
A bunch of cooler in the front for air flow in the datacenter.
And the CPU will be aircooler with the stock coolers.
Trying to use all of this with 1 x 750w Gold or something like. 

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You should be able to just split the power and make an adapter, Most boards will just turn on if you give them power. But thats messy and I wouldn't do that. You could do something like one big ac to 12v or 19v and then use a pico psu for every motherboard.

 

But also why would you do this? Something like a single epyc will be faster, cheaper, more power efficent and have more features like remote management.

 

If you want a real blade, id just get a used dell m1000e, there pretty cheap these days used and have many more features than this setup would give you.

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1 minute ago, Lsmxlt said:

We plan in using this for hosting gameservers, in this cases high Ghz cpu are better, for this propose.
About remote management we are planning on using KVM over ip.

Why not get a high clocked epyc or xeon then? Should be a similar clock speed. What game servers are you running anyways? The server chips also normally have much more l3 and memory bandwidth aswell. If you want these low core high clock chips in a blade supermicro does that. Id get something like a epyc 7502p and it should work fine here.

 

Also for management, I mean impi, but id use ssh to control linux boxes. Also id run a hypervisor on all the hardware, just makes it easier to manage

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