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To add, your typical laptop these days has a 45W or 65W power supply, which will not be fully loaded most of the time!
by ip26 8y ago
To add, your typical laptop these days has a 45W or 65W power supply, which will not be fully loaded most of the time!
- masklinn 8y agoThey specifically mention desktop computers, not laptops.
- iforgotpassword 8y agoThey're basically at the same level if you don't use high end CPUs and gaming GPUs. Also see here: http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/135719-5-9-watts-the-worlds-most-efficient-high-end-computer http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/135719-5-9-watts-the-worl... - tldr: 30w idle for an unmodified average system. Mind you this was 2012, mid range systems surely haven't gotten more power hungry since then.
- masklinn 8y ago> Also see here: http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/135719-5-9-watts-the-worl.. http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/135719-5-9-watts-the-worl.... - tldr: 30w idle for an unmodified average system. That's an order of magnitude more than an idle laptop. And they're not talking about any sort of "average system" they're ballparking a "reference desktop" which tops out at 150W under load, that's not just "don't use a gaming GPU" that's "don't use a GPU at all". And if you're building a "desktop computer" with an APU and an SSD… why are you building a desktop computer?
- iforgotpassword 8y ago> That's an order of magnitude more than an idle laptop. Uuh.. yes... And an order of magnitude less than "several 100w light bulbs" > And if you're building a "desktop computer" with an APU and an SSD… why are you building a desktop computer? Ergonomics?
- iforgotpassword 8y agoEven a moderate desktop with no dedicated graphics would idle at around 30 Watts. I tried taking this further a couple years ago with an i5 and a 200w PSU that was targeting low loads and got to 18w idle.