The original post: /r/homelab by /u/gmrwei on 2025-02-22 06:13:04.

OVH, Hetzner, and many other Dedicated Server Provider have comsumer CPU products like 9700X, 8700G, Intel 13600 etc.

I know there are brands like ASRock have IPMI capable motherboard for consumer CPU. But if I personally use it to build a “server”, it might not have enough density satisfy the enterprise requirement to be a profitable product.

I’m curios about what they actually use. And if it’s possible to get one or some of them when they retire. Just like cheap Xeon E3/E5 CPU when they massively retired.