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Is it doable? Probably. A quick search shows that your professor appears to be an LGA1851 socket type. www.newegg.com/p/0SS-0236-01835

This should work, but please verify your own details first!

Otherwise, if you have a chassis in mind already, go for it. If you feel comfortable moving it to actual server-grade hardware, www.labgopher.com can help you find something hopefully very cheap that you could scrap or repurpose.

The biggest advantage with server-grade components is the fans and power supplies are designed with that environment in mind. The 40mm fans in 1u racks are very nearly airplane levels of loud. 20k rpm kind of fans. That’s how they solve the airflow problem, they don’t have noise rules.

Hope that helps!

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scottmeme@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
I would hope you are not putting a professor in a 1u chassis, that sounds kinda mean

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- yaroto98@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  I think servers in 1U config are called blades.
  
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  - epyon22@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    No blades are different they are small full computers that go into a large backplane chassis www.supermicro.com/sites/…/8U_SuperBlade.png
    
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  - jpaskaruk@growers.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    @yaroto98 @scottmeme Nah, a blade server is a weird format where servers are long rectangular "blades" that push into and can be pulled out of an enclosure in the rack which holds around 16 of them.
    How I know: deployed a 500-node render farm at Tangent Animation.
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QuantumEraser@fedia.io ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
That heatsink says it's rated for up to 125W, which I'm not sure will be enough for the 265K (Intel says 250W at max boost). I don't have a specific chassis in mind; the one I linked was just one I found with a quick search. I haven't purchased server hardware before so I'm not really sure what to look for. Do you think buying a generic microATX compatible chassis and a similar heatsink (higher rated power if I can find one), then adding a ton of high RPM fans and possibly some custom airflow guides to get very high airflow through the heatsink would work?

I can't go with a server grade mobo/CPU as Minecraft servers need very high single threaded performance which you can only really get with desktop CPUs (at least at non-insane prices).

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- lemmyvore@feddit.nl ⁨22⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago
  The main limitation in a 1U chassis is the size of the heatsink + fan. They’re typically 80x80mm width/length, and the height is very small. You get 45mm for the whole case so you have to work with a slim (15mm) 80x80 fan and a tiny heatsink that’s 10mm or so. So they have to work at 5000rpm and put out 60dB of noise but even so they’re typically only rated for 80-100W.
  
  I other words I really don’t think it’s worth bothering for a 250W draw. If you can get a 2U space yeah, that gives you much better cooling options.
  
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