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AI datacenter hardware, explained

Buying guides and straight comparisons for the parts that build AI clusters — written from live market data.

Racks
19in vs 21in ORV3 Racks
Why AI density pushes racks from 19-inch EIA-310 to 21-inch Open Rack, plus load, depth and cooling.
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Power
AI Rack Power & PDU Guide
Size power for a 100kW+ AI rack: three-phase PDUs, titanium CRPS, OCP power shelves and redundancy.
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CPU
EPYC vs Xeon for AI
Which host CPU feeds your GPUs best: AMD EPYC or Intel Xeon, compared on cores, memory, PCIe and price.
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Cooling
Direct-to-Chip vs Immersion
DTC cold plates and CDUs vs immersion for AI racks — density, PUE, retrofit, cost and lead times.
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Storage
E1.S vs E3.S vs U.2 EDSFF
U.2/U.3 vs E1.S, E3.S and E1.L — density, thermals and the right slot for AI servers.
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GPU
H100 vs H200 vs B200
How NVIDIA H100, H200 and B200 differ on memory, bandwidth, power and cost, and which fits your workload.
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Rails
Server Rail Buying Guide
Pick heavy-duty rails for liquid-cooled GPU nodes: load basis, travel, tool-less mounting and CMA.
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Networking
InfiniBand vs RoCE vs Ethernet
How InfiniBand and RoCEv2 Ethernet compare for AI training fabrics — latency, cost, and supply.
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GPU
NVIDIA vs AMD MI300X
How AMD Instinct MI300X and MI325X stack up against NVIDIA's H100, H200 and B200 on memory and cost.
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Memory
RDIMM vs LRDIMM vs MRDIMM
How DDR5 RDIMM, 3DS LRDIMM and MRDIMM 8800 differ — and which to spec for AI servers.
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Storage
TLC vs QLC Enterprise SSD
TLC for write-heavy checkpoints, QLC for read-heavy datasets — how to tier NVMe for AI.
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HBM
HBM3E vs HBM4
High-bandwidth memory explained: HBM3E vs HBM4, and why you buy it bundled on the accelerator.
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