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Adding an additional rear fan helps reducing the issue with the psu temps

I've got a Huanan X99 F8D in the Torrent - EATX and covering all of the holes on the front to 100%. Here you can see how i've routed my cables. ATX and dual 8pin 12V are on the top of the board.

Daily main rig. All-purpose thing, rendering, software development, gaming...

You're right - but then you're fixed of running VMs and you can't access all the Hardware at once (what you might want to do if you'll use that server as a kind of a workstation). Depends ... everything has pros and cons ...

You could just run Windows 2019 / 22 Server with Hypervisor Role installed and play around with VMs 🤷‍♂️👍

The Case is a Fractal Torrent, the LED Bar is built in by factory. 👍 During Men Testing

That was just a joke - I really love to see all the dually rigs 🥰 I'm doing a lot of VM stuff, so Cores ARE important for me.

Oh man, I love those 'look how big my dick is' things. :D But only 64 gigs of Ram? You could update that! :) I also love my dually Workstation. Next update will be dual Xeon Platinum 8280 as soon as they are affordable (so in 2 years or so...) (Bench was taken with 4 VMs running - so maybe...

According to the review, the compact has much smaller space on the backside for cabling. The nano however seems to have more space. Strange.

Here you've got a review of the Compact and Nano ... I know it's in german but maybe it's helpful. https://www.hardwareluxx.de/index.php/artikel/hardware/gehaeuse/58022-fractal-design-torrent-compact-und-torrent-nano-im-test-der-airflow-zwergenaufstand.html

Hm... Seems that those coolers are not easily available here in Germany 🙄😔 However, I've found some adequate replacement - from an old GeForce MX Card. Works like a charm and it's not noisy anymore (at least not that fan 😂)

Since somehow there is no one interested in the board i got from another forum a few month ago, and it has only been lying around since the construction of my Dual Xeon E5-2680v4 workstation, I thought I would build a sleeper. Hyper-V and stuff like that can be run on it, at least temporarily...

I don't Really know the exact Setup - but both were connected simultaneously to the network and had the same specs. I could image some sort of fail over cluster... Maybe with some special controlling software.

It was one of the backbone servers of the "Belwue" high-school network in Germany . His name is Hugo (yeah, no joke! Also had a sister named Lisa). Cost of that thing with current spec is around 200k - plus the two RS/8s. Yeah, that WAS a BEAST. THE beast.

No complains, however I'm not the ultra-silent freak... 🤷‍♂️