alt Hacker NewsIt should be closer to 85W on load. And it's incredibly silent on even a low end cooler. I rarely get above 50° Celcius.
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85W for the whole system?! The specifications for the CPU mention a TDP of 85W [1].
[1] https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/products/sku/92986/i...
Only when you remove it from the original server or enable low fan mode (if available). Most 1U/2U cases will happily blow at full speed well over 90db.
You likely need to replace the flow-through server chassis system with an active "normal" cooler to achieve a bit of silence.
85W might be about right. My old server CPU is in the same ballpark and compiling kernels it reached about 90w in power usage. If you want to keep it running: idle is not very low power unless you have one of the "low power" L versions, keep that in mind.
OK, then you're in luck. I had a bunch of old 1U rack servers and even in the next room it was too annoying to run them (they had a bunch of 40mm fans which always ran at full speed, because in a server room, no one can hear you scream).