ASRock Rack B565D4-V1L AM4 ODM/OEM Hetzner Server mobo

oh my! :rofl: We’re discussing these mobos on ServeTheHome, as well? (totally forgot, that they’re maintaining forums, as well.)

Btw, Roman “Der8auer“ (DerBauer) - Der AchtAuer :rofl: - published a pretty good data centre tour, of one of Hetzners DCs. Hetzner uses those cost-optimised trays - 2U, or so - shelves, and shelves of them - fascinating.

This is what i’m talking about, timestamp 13:37, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5eo8nz_niiM&t=817s - those look like 3U compartments. YouTube says “4 years ago“ - so, 2022?

I think, someone published another Hetzner DC tour video on YT - showing how the servers get assembled and tested.

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Hetzner is active on social media past year or two, may spot some hardware there as well

edit:

Stolen from Hetzner FB:

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=1519835070142111&set=pb.100063468972592.-2207520000&type=3

not sure how old the actual photo is, post is 16.2.2026

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my PiHole DNS filter blocks everything FB :rofl: (ain’t no clicking, on my end)

DOOD! That’s my mobo! :rofl:

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Just for you, another photo/post, from 2023 :smiley:

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aye, that’s what i’m talking about - those low-cost trays, exactly! (coincidentally MY mobo, as far as i can tell) :+1:

Oh yeah, btw, the PDF manual meta data states 2021 as its creation date, and 2024 as the most recent (meaningful) modification date. (via exiftool)

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ye their budget servers have custom made cases, thats why they can offer them so cheap cuz its not some HP/DELL/whatever expensive machine to buy in the first place (They offer Dell servers too if you need that tho)

Czech Koruna?
Czech this out! :smiling_face_with_three_hearts: love this joke. (I think Deus Ex: Mankind Divided featured an NPC with a “button“ on her clothing - lovely stuff!)

I’m not here to advertise explicitly German stuff. I’m just talking about my shiny new toy. I didn’t even know that CZ doesn’t trade in Euro, yet. (they seem to be democratic - must have their reasons - i’m not judging)

As far as i’m concerned, we’re all earthlings - i’m one of those Star Trek nutters! :rofl: :vulcan_salute: …live long, and prosper!

Tembo; his arms wide! :smiley:

EU; their arms wide! (usually, unless something ain’t quite right :sweat_smile:)

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Neither the power-saver profile, nor the AutoASPM script moved the needle much - 64 Watts is about as low as it the whole rack goes.

I might try replacing the dual-i226-V NIC with a single-port Realtek. Not only don’t i need the second 2.5G port, i’d also eschew the ASMedia PCIe bridge on that card.

I can report, though; Jellyfin runs pretty good on 6 Zen2 threads - the Ryzen 3 3100 has 4c/8t - the VM gets 6 vCPUs. For my single-user household workload, i really don’t need a GPU, after all. A GPU in my previous box would’ve drawn at least +10 Watts, idling, meh, it’s fine.

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I think i should clarify; those power consumption figures above are for the whole rack - that includes a DSL router, switch, WAP, and a laser printer in stand-by.

After replacing the dual i226-V with a Realtek 2.5G single port NIC, these are my current consumption figures (power-saver profile + AutoASPM script) - the DeviceUnderTest0 smart plug now measures the PSU of the ASRock Rack mobo box.

That little remnant there in the DeviceUnderTest0 graph, that’s an idling Radeon 9060XT/16G in an OCuLink Gen4x4 eGPU dock.

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Ahoy guys! I’m new to the show. I’ve encountered major issues trying to run this board with my Ryzen 5500. Therefore i’m currently creating a coreboot-frankenstein BIOS in order to get it working properly for me. So far it works fine, boots fine into Linux. I didn’t get past PXE ROM init before, far away from even booting. So great success.

x58-debug:~# dmidecode -t baseboard
# dmidecode 3.7
Getting SMBIOS data from sysfs.
SMBIOS 3.3.0 present.

Handle 0x0002, DMI type 2, 15 bytes
Base Board Information
	Manufacturer: ASRockRack
	Product Name: B565D4-V1L
	Version:                       
	Serial Number: M80-E1008500646
	Asset Tag:                       
	Features:
		Board is a hosting board
		Board is replaceable
	Location In Chassis:                       
	Chassis Handle: 0x0003
	Type: Motherboard
	Contained Object Handles: 0

Handle 0x0004, DMI type 10, 6 bytes
On Board Device Information
	Type: Video
	Status: Enabled
	Description:    To Be Filled By O.E.M.

x58-debug:~# 
x58-debug:~# 
x58-debug:~# 
x58-debug:~# 
x58-debug:~# dmidecode -t cpu
Invalid type keyword: cpu
Valid type keywords are:
  bios
  system
  baseboard
  chassis
  processor
  memory
  cache
  connector
  slot
x58-debug:~# dmidecode -t processor
# dmidecode 3.7
Getting SMBIOS data from sysfs.
SMBIOS 3.3.0 present.

Handle 0x000E, DMI type 4, 48 bytes
Processor Information
	Socket Designation: CPU1
	Type: Central Processor
	Family: Zen
	Manufacturer: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
	ID: 00 0F A5 00 FF FB 8B 17
	Signature: Family 25, Model 80, Stepping 0
	Flags:
		FPU (Floating-point unit on-chip)
		VME (Virtual mode extension)
		DE (Debugging extension)
		PSE (Page size extension)
		TSC (Time stamp counter)
		MSR (Model specific registers)
		PAE (Physical address extension)
		MCE (Machine check exception)
		CX8 (CMPXCHG8 instruction supported)
		APIC (On-chip APIC hardware supported)
		SEP (Fast system call)
		MTRR (Memory type range registers)
		PGE (Page global enable)
		MCA (Machine check architecture)
		CMOV (Conditional move instruction supported)
		PAT (Page attribute table)
		PSE-36 (36-bit page size extension)
		CLFSH (CLFLUSH instruction supported)
		MMX (MMX technology supported)
		FXSR (FXSAVE and FXSTOR instructions supported)
		SSE (Streaming SIMD extensions)
		SSE2 (Streaming SIMD extensions 2)
		HTT (Multi-threading)
	Version: AMD Ryzen 5 5500                               
	Voltage: 1.4 V
	External Clock: 100 MHz
	Max Speed: 4250 MHz
	Current Speed: 3600 MHz
	Status: Populated, Enabled
	Upgrade: Socket AM4
	L1 Cache Handle: 0x000B
	L2 Cache Handle: 0x000C
	L3 Cache Handle: 0x000D
	Serial Number: Unknown
	Asset Tag: Unknown
	Part Number: Unknown
	Core Count: 6
	Core Enabled: 6
	Thread Count: 12
	Characteristics:
		64-bit capable
		Multi-Core
		Hardware Thread
		Execute Protection
		Enhanced Virtualization
		Power/Performance Control


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