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What? You fundamentally don't understand what boost means and there is zero expectation of "boost all the time". Maybe you meant "base", not boost.
Who do you think you are to question hetzner technician?
In my youth, I was foolish enough to purchase a used 1u rack server for my home use. Regretted it since day one. Fans were so loud.
Sold it as soon as I could and never looked back.
I think it is reasonable to assume that a provider uses a cooling solution that is rated higher than the max amount of power that said CPU can consume. Thus if the cooling capacity is adequate the CPU will be able to boost all of the time.
Any specification for CPU cooling is for base at a less than 100% load for less than 24/7 and boost performance is just gravy. You think the $6 OEM CPU cooler is in the same league as a $200 cooler?
If you mean "often" and not "all of the time", then sure. But not 24/7.
One of the biggest problems in modern (large) CPUs is getting heat from inside the chip out to the heatsink in the first place. No matter how oversize your cooling system, there are internal limitations. It's been problematic since the Pentium4 days. Intel even hedges on it:
Lol same. If it makes you feel better they are much quieter these days when the system is idle. But when you get even a little hot they get LOUD
It didn't help since I'm living in a tropical country with 25℃+ temps regularly
My opinion is that the end user should not be concerned about the temperature of the provider's equipment. It is the provider's job to monitor its temperature and maintain it within the required range. If overheating is causing underfrequency and performance issues, please ask technical support to correct the situation.
It is oK to run at 100°C for a server CPU. I'm not a hardware engineer but I have an old server in my offic to mine some cryptocoins, the temperature is always too high even it have 6 fans and I also added an exptra heattsink on the CPU... It will keep mining for weeks and months and everything is OK...!
No one is concerned about the lifespan of the hardware. The concern is in regards to performance.
The sound level is no joke!
Noise complaints from our neighbors have played a factor in rent negotiations! Our employees wear hearing protection when they are anywhere near the office. We had to buy a decibel meter to safely work with it, and I've seen areas as high as 110. It wouldn't surprise me if a significant amount of the electrical energy we take in is converted to acoustic instead of heat! I suppose as the walls deaden it, it makes its way into heat, but quite a bit of sound energy leaves our datacenter.
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TL;DR Forget about "boost" and "turbo" as you usually can not at all count on it being available and also because it's largely just a marketing pseudo-feature (in real life).
That’s not a server CPU.
We still have a couple of ex41's left that we will replace soon with ax51's. Load on these nodes is between 40-80%. We see much better temps in Helsinki. We are more worried about the nvme temps which can get pretty toasty.
As you said, it's just a heat buildup limitation. Well, you're really just talking about budget and typical CPU coolers. Only money and space prevent you from using CO2 and getting Turbo all day long.
The short answer is, this guy isn't paying for an expensive cooling system and gets what he gets.
In my House computer, to render 3D, i use Liquid refrigeration, cos its easy to burn the CPU
not I7, but E5 2650v2,
bitcoin mining ?