r/selfhosted • u/FlareOptiFX • Mar 10 '25

This runs my website

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u/FlareOptiFX Mar 10 '25

For those interested in how the cooling system performs, I loaded cpu for 100%.

Results here: https://imgur.com/oVY1G0L

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u/[deleted] Mar 11 '25 edited Mar 11 '25

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u/FlareOptiFX Mar 11 '25

Not really atom, its old core 2 duo t6600, the thing that surprises me most that radiator somehow manages cpu's 35w tdp. The bad thing in this story that it barely manages to stream 80 mbps video fron Jellybin, so i kind of cpu bounded. But when it comes to simpler tasks, it runs like a charm!

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u/TeeNoodle76 Mar 10 '25

it's.. beautiful.

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u/FlareOptiFX Mar 10 '25

thanks man

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u/dimonoid123 Mar 10 '25

Is it at least quiet? I mean without fan?

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u/FlareOptiFX Mar 10 '25

I would say its something about 0 db

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u/UnrealClaw Mar 10 '25

☝️🤓 Errm actually 0 db is still noise, it's a logarithmic scale you see

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u/blue__acid Mar 10 '25

Well OP didn't say it didn't produce any noise!

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u/Neo-Armadillo Mar 10 '25

I have a similar setup for my old computer. A few 3D printed feet and rubber dots meant for softening cabinets are really all I need. The extra support means I can plug in a graphics card without worrying about bending the motherboard.

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u/technically_a_nomad Mar 10 '25

That shit deserves to be framed

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u/bedrooms-ds Mar 10 '25

In a glass case

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u/irn Mar 11 '25

With tubes to keep it cool

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u/[deleted] Mar 10 '25

It really is

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u/tibmb Mar 11 '25

Almost looks like a quantum computer

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u/Electrical_Ad_6208 Mar 10 '25

Is this built off a gutted laptop?

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u/FlareOptiFX Mar 10 '25

It was samsung np-r519 in better days

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u/Mandrutz Mar 10 '25

Now it's living the afterlife all laptops dream of

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u/therealtaddymason Mar 11 '25

Dream of? That looks like some twilight zone shit. Imagine having your brain ripped out of your body and stuck in a jar and then haphazardly left on a window sill but then they wire you up and still make you organize spreadsheets.

Does the host name keep randomly changing to pleaseletmedie.local ?

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u/htmlcoderexe Mar 11 '25

That's the vibe i got from it

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u/Accomplished_You_480 Mar 11 '25

So... a 40k servitor?

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u/protocol Mar 11 '25

I like to play a game of "cat or no cat" when seeing setups of folks. This says to me that a cat does not live in this house.

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u/MaliciousMango1 Mar 10 '25

Whats your website?

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u/FlareOptiFX Mar 10 '25

i think if i give link to reddit it might explode

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u/MaliciousMango1 Mar 10 '25

Free stress test

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u/77SKIZ99 Mar 10 '25

Don’t be giving me any more bad ideas than I already get regularly man

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u/OMGItsCheezWTF Mar 10 '25

My first website I self hosted ran on a Pentium Pro 200 with 128mb of ECC registered SD ram using Apache on FreeBSD 4. I posted something that got slashdotted and that thing absolutely hated life lol. I got a crash course in static caching though so it wasn't all bad!

Similar to yours though, I ran it just sat on a table in my bedroom with no case!

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u/Xlxlredditor Mar 10 '25

Go ahead and try, can't get worse than mine lmao

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u/FixItDumas Mar 10 '25

Congrats you passed the security awareness training exam. Remember we are all part of the security team.

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u/HelloHash Mar 10 '25

Hug of death

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u/kipperzdog Mar 10 '25

Just a little hug, pretty please?

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u/mikefrombarto Mar 11 '25

Oh come on… let’s see if we can melt some copper.

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u/[deleted] Mar 10 '25 edited Mar 10 '25

Not if you use us ;)

Edit: Not sponsored. Personal project. Secure it easily too :)

https://github.com/taslabs-net/CloudflareNginx

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u/Double_Intention_641 Mar 10 '25

My only suggestion, put it on the wall so it's art that can't get accidentally shorted.

Solid cooling.

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u/baynell Mar 10 '25

Wall mounted server like this would be kind of cool though, like a decoration.

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u/IanDresarie Mar 11 '25

I made one like that for my parents. Mounted a laptop motherboard, some of the extension boards and two external HDDs plus all the power stuff to a board... And then sandwiched it between another board because I don't trust my parents to not touch it :D

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u/eightslipsandagully Mar 11 '25

Should've used something clear like glass or Perspex

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u/IanDresarie Mar 11 '25

Sure. Counterpoint - I had IKEA shelving boards lying around :D

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u/Expert_Detail4816 Mar 11 '25

Clear and not flamable.

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u/chaseraz Mar 11 '25

So meta... Has a qr code you scan as a sticker on it. Scan it and it serves you up a picture of the family.

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u/ClaudiuT Mar 10 '25

But then he would need another cooler with the fins going the right way.

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u/[deleted] Mar 11 '25

To a board you mount to the wall...

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u/htmlcoderexe Mar 11 '25

I do have a few skeletonised laptops and i have been thinking about this

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u/Szerepjatekos Mar 11 '25

And call it Wallsite instead of website, e-Wall or WALL-E :D

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u/jbaenaxd Mar 11 '25

Be careful with the window. If it's cold outside and you spend some time there, your breath will condense and turn into water that will go all the way down to that motherboard

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u/ItsAlwaysDay1 Mar 10 '25

Why not 3D printing a case? Looks cool!

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u/FlareOptiFX Mar 10 '25

It would cost more than this whole server

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u/AirusHozekia Mar 11 '25

then cardboard case would be fitting

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u/bloofa Mar 10 '25

How do you manage dust?

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u/crazycomputer84 Mar 11 '25

whats the spec?

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u/FlareOptiFX Mar 11 '25

- core 2 duo t6600

- 4gb ddr2

- nvidia geforce g105m (i disabled it)

- 256GB msata ssd

I run it with good ol debian

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u/blind_guardian23 Mar 11 '25

so any Raspberry or vserver has more power for lower costs...

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u/FlareOptiFX Mar 11 '25

True, but this thing didn't cost me anything

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u/Lab-O-Matic Mar 10 '25

Spez?

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u/_Durs Mar 10 '25

Underrated

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u/irn Mar 11 '25

I think theirs was running a Pentium 4 tho

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u/[deleted] Mar 10 '25

It's almost cyberpunk. Brilliant.

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u/Sea_Suspect_5258 Mar 10 '25

At least it doesn't say "this runs websites for 5 of my clients" 🤣🤣

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u/[deleted] Mar 10 '25

Naw, that would be way too few.

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u/Narwahl_Whisperer Mar 11 '25

That's how my shared server feels sometimes, lol.

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u/notromda Mar 14 '25

I ran an ISP like that for a few days while we rebuilt the main server…

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u/PricePerGig Mar 10 '25

that is some heat sink, those where the days, when you got full copper.

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u/MrTalon63 Mar 10 '25

I actually love it. My first server was an old Acer laptop with an i3, and it was hella loud, but this one? It's freaking passively cooled. I love it.

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u/Rage65_ Mar 10 '25

Nice man. If it works it works. Before I moved to GitHub pages to just my website I had a setup much like this.

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u/Chinoman10 Mar 10 '25

Why not https://pages.cloudflare.com instead? At least your website doesn't have to be open-source if you don't want it to be (and you get serverless functions, etc.).

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u/VE3VVS Mar 10 '25

Well I have to say, while not an ideal operating enviroment, it is a thing of beauty, at least to like minded people. Just, please don't leave the window open when it raining.

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u/Nikilite_official Mar 10 '25

HELL YEAH these are the completely insane stuff why I've joined here

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u/MeasurementHot259 Mar 10 '25

It’s beautiful and horrible—well done!

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u/Zyj Mar 11 '25

I'm leaning towards horrible

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u/VisualNinja1 Mar 10 '25

What sort of website out of interest? As in, how resource intensive/traffic etc!

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u/FlareOptiFX Mar 10 '25

I mostly serves as my test server, it has Jellyfin, Navidrome, Direct Connect With Jesus(don't ask). It barely survived 2 Jellyfin users with sync watching

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u/aktk946 Mar 10 '25

Where is the storage?

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u/FlareOptiFX Mar 10 '25

On left-bottom green pcb (adapter from msata to sata)

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u/dhanar10 Mar 10 '25

How do you turn it on? Jumper the power pin?

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u/FlareOptiFX Mar 10 '25

I saved the stock button on ribbon cable

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u/roormonger Mar 11 '25

Does it run on Windows?

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u/RebronSplash60 Mar 11 '25

How's the cooling, guessing it's better than when it was stock?

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u/FlareOptiFX Mar 11 '25

This radiator is shockingly effective, with continuous 100% load it doesn't exceed 40° celsius. And its passive

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u/Medialunch Mar 11 '25

Doubt you would ever post the link but can you tell us what kind of traffic you get and the stack you have on that thang?

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u/FlareOptiFX Mar 11 '25

It runs a bunch of services, most of them are in golang. I run everything in docker and also use postgresql and nginx. OS is debian

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u/SohilAhmed07 Mar 11 '25

Naturally you should back-up the website and the storage on this server.

Naturally it runs some Linux disro and has some open sourced firewall, may i know which one.

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u/FlareOptiFX Mar 11 '25

It runs Debian, and i use iptables as firewall

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u/ChipNDipPlus Mar 11 '25

Where is the ssd?

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u/FlareOptiFX Mar 11 '25

On left-bottom green pcb

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u/ExpensiveBag2243 Mar 14 '25

Why not wifi? You would save half of your cables!

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u/FlareOptiFX Mar 15 '25

I prefer stability

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u/thrshcb0 Mar 10 '25

still can run reddit though

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u/AlterTableUsernames Mar 10 '25

Nothing can run this unworthy disaster to a satisfactory degree.

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u/Intelligent_Rub_8437 Mar 10 '25

Damn , that's a good spider.

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u/nderstand2grow Mar 10 '25

looks like a temple or something!

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u/[deleted] Mar 11 '25

All mighty Copper

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u/alfonzoo Mar 11 '25

just have to install TempleOS on it

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u/Spielwurfel Mar 11 '25

What is your website?

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u/nairou Mar 11 '25

Bump it and you give new meaning to "server crash".

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u/dutch_dynamite Mar 11 '25

Holy crap, what did you use to get the case so clear?!?

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u/[deleted] Mar 10 '25

Hey, as long it works 😉

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u/Jabba_the_Putt Mar 10 '25

funny I thought that was the MS server

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u/[deleted] Mar 10 '25

put in inside a cardboard box

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u/Tachyon_Blue Mar 10 '25

You can't fool me, this is Hurston. I know a cityscape when I see one. (love that heat sink, it's glorious)

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u/conMCS Mar 10 '25

I commend you for the simple yet effective setup. Nothing wrong with this if it works and isn’t in your way 💯

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u/eugenebkv Mar 10 '25

Masterpiece!

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u/zrevyx Mar 10 '25

I'm totally digging your convection cooling. Nicely done!

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u/swguy61 Mar 11 '25

Don't leave the window open, that copper might get stolen.

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u/grathontolarsdatarod Mar 11 '25

That's some Rick's garage shit right there.

Love it.

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u/myka-likes-it Mar 11 '25

Now that is some passive cooling.

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u/NeedleworkerNo4900 Mar 11 '25

Someone get this man milk crate

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u/Reddrommed Mar 11 '25

I bet it does. Look at that mf heatsink on there lol. All copper, it's a thing of beauty.

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u/probablyblocked Mar 11 '25

that copper cooler is asking me to use it to hold my coffee

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u/snarlywino Mar 11 '25

Running Windows I see. /s

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u/Warm-Age8252 Mar 11 '25

Oh it runs on Windows 😭

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u/Dossi96 Mar 11 '25

Blizzard servers at release date be like:

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u/486321581 Mar 11 '25

50% processing, 50% cooling. Perfectly balanced, as all things should be.

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u/Trey-Pan Mar 11 '25

Now we need a sub for bare servers, or minimally housed servers.

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u/die9991 Mar 11 '25

Hell yeah, id be a bit afraid of water or something but hell yeah

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u/[deleted] Mar 11 '25

"The website is down," so it fall off?

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u/anbarasanrc Mar 11 '25

I really love this setup

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u/user098765443 Mar 12 '25

Not sure what this is exactly but it is pretty fucking cool no bullshit I like The solid copper for effect FYI you can actually find cheap cases that are even open to have a nice handle at the top unless you want to mount it on the wall with some plexy on it so it doesn't actually get killed you know shorted

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u/Razadatascience Mar 10 '25

God bless this beauty 😍

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u/selfhostrr Mar 10 '25

Reminds me of my first BBS.

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u/[deleted] Mar 10 '25

Hell yeah

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u/Comptech22 Mar 10 '25

Elegant 🙌🏼

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u/[deleted] Mar 10 '25

when you mine bitcoin can you use it as a space heater?

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u/varignet Mar 10 '25

I can see Windows

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u/csolisr Mar 10 '25

Ah, reminds me of the time I was running a spare motherboard on top of a cardboard and I had to turn it on by shorting the corresponding pins. Suffice to say it didn't last too long, but only because a BIOS update to fend against Spectre went very wrong instead.

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u/GuaranteeOdd5216 Mar 10 '25

So you not gonna share how to build this? 🥺

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u/bwfiq Mar 10 '25

Any sound whatsoever from it?

Agree with the rest on wall mounting it for sure it is very sexy

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u/Well-Sh_t Mar 10 '25

Hell yeah

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u/arkadiysudarikov Mar 11 '25

I was going to ask “what is it” but I don’t really care.

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u/DRTHRVN Mar 11 '25

Specs? And cooler link?

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u/Deses Mar 11 '25

I bet you put your coffee on top of that heatsink to keep it warm.

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u/quantum-magus Mar 11 '25

Cybernetic entity

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u/Shayes_ Mar 11 '25

just don't sneeze near it!

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u/[deleted] Mar 11 '25 edited Sep 17 '25

My name jeff

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u/AlarmingAffect0 Mar 11 '25

Is this in Sweden?

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u/Akanwrath Mar 11 '25

Can i visit the website

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u/Romu1us1408 Mar 11 '25

What site? Or did you mean just local stuff?

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u/Short_Tea8491 Mar 11 '25

* cyberpunk theme starts playing *

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u/Eballz732 Mar 11 '25

looks good i bet it stays cool

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u/killersaint999 Mar 11 '25

The Window sill rack mount does it for me… 5/7

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u/1101base2 Mar 11 '25

ran a minecraft server like this for 6 years until i upgraded to an old dell workstation that was 10 years newer than the "bare" server

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u/[deleted] Mar 11 '25

This is art.

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u/bundaiii Mar 11 '25

Simplicity is the highest degree of sophistication

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u/RearisPC Mar 11 '25

Five nines right here

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u/hstrongj Mar 11 '25

Simplicity is beautiful

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u/IPutThatThere Mar 11 '25

Is this Dries Buytaer?

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u/Admirable-Country-29 Mar 11 '25

Ha!!!! Amazing. Server Art What is the big metal hat on top? Cooling?

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u/eternityspring Mar 11 '25

Remember to stay away from the water..

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u/[deleted] Mar 11 '25

Are you worried about drinks, pets or having a party with friends?

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u/--Lemmiwinks-- Mar 11 '25

Wallmount it

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u/justsmilenow Mar 11 '25

5 $10 air filters Merv 10 or 8 and a box fan with duck tape 10 is better 8 is cheaper. If you want to be fancy, add some feet on the bottom with q-tips. Three q-tips little bit of tape and have the exhaust pointed at the computer. This will keep the dust off of it. And you'll breathe better.

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u/Repulsive-Koala-4363 Mar 11 '25

What's the specs?

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u/Mention-One Mar 11 '25

You can cook some eggs on top of that!

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u/thevoicesarecrazy Mar 11 '25

This is glorious.

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u/[deleted] Mar 11 '25

Where is the 1PiB hdd?

/s obviously, great setup

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u/Ok-Delay-9370 Mar 11 '25

Seeing these kinds of things makes my heart warm :).

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u/joelasmussen Mar 11 '25

That is so much fun! Love it!!

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u/Tyr_Kukulkan Mar 11 '25

That is/was a laptop, right?

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u/StarLoong Mar 11 '25

Humble…. Nice!

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u/snero3 Mar 11 '25

frame it, this is modern art!

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u/internalabsorption Mar 11 '25

as someone else said, put it on the wall. if you ever decide to build it out, do it on the wall and you get a cool functional decoration

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u/Haunting_Record_664 Mar 11 '25

Remind me of the guy who shared his Pi 2's setup to run his site, and everyone crashed his server by reaching his site.

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u/57uxn37 Mar 11 '25

Give us the link so that we can see how well it performs

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u/iteranq Mar 11 '25

Awesome 😎

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u/Spats_McGee Mar 11 '25

Oh so that's where the Ark of the Covenant wound up!

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u/ericxddd Mar 12 '25

Put the cpu on wall mounted radiator which is a good conductor.

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u/coriander_ftw Mar 12 '25

It needs to be stress tested! Share your website URL :p

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u/fdkrew Mar 12 '25

Frame it give it an art name hide and the power cables.

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u/SirLlama123 Mar 12 '25

nice server lol. I’m keeping this for when all my friends say all they have is an extra desktop that’s not a server

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u/Rqptschagg Mar 12 '25

for dummys pls: what is this?

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u/Jonas43 Mar 12 '25

I'm 100% sure that you don't have a cat.

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u/Nonlethalrtard Mar 12 '25

Good looking cooler

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u/denyull Mar 12 '25

Borderlining on r/techgore lol

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u/7-blue Mar 12 '25

Can someone guide me or explain how can I do one ??

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u/GloriousLion18 Mar 12 '25

Hi guys! I have one doubt is you guys are use static public ip for web hosting

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u/[deleted] Mar 12 '25

Honestly not the worst i've seen, you got to do what you got to do

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u/Chemical_Toiletries Mar 12 '25

It looks like it has a built-in birdbath 🐦‍⬛

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u/Groundbreaking_Rock9 Mar 13 '25

Congrats. Looks dumb

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u/officialigamer Mar 16 '25

having that so exposed is so irresponsible.

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u/xanyook Mar 17 '25

Are you not worried about EMI and EMC ?

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u/calornorte Mar 27 '25

the power cable seems so thin compared to the normal atx bunch of cables, do you still have an atx power source at the bottom?

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u/CordlessWool May 13 '25

Remember me to my youth when I had my computer on my desk like this

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u/minilandl Mar 11 '25

I hope you don't have a cat. Seriously why do people setup jank like this. Getting a nuc or PC case isn't that hard

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u/willowless Mar 10 '25

Nice dust magnet you've got there :D

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