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130w is definitely low. My Xeon workstation is closer to 250w.

by maccard 4y ago

ac29 4y ago
It runs at 250W 24/7?
- metadat 4y ago
  170w to 300w for an older (2010-2015 era) dual-processor Xeon idling is what I've measured at my house across numerous Supermicro builds. 2018 and newer server chips may have better low-power idle mode support.
  - metadat 4y ago
    I want to add that I do thoroughly enjoy and appreciate my trusty old 2U Supermicro dualie from 2014-era Xeon parts. Even if it does idle at 170w, the build was less than $2k, it has 50 cores, 384GB ram, tons of storage.. 1 year uptime, so sick! Has not let me down yet! Even if the mobo croaks, it's easy to source a cost-effective replacement from fleabay.
- maccard 4y ago
  Welli turn it off out of working hours but it idles at 250w yeah. Peak power draw is much higher.
hexo 4y ago
I've just measured it with wattmeter. Xeon E5-2697v2, 64GB ram, SSD + 2x HDD, GTX1080. Excluding monitor, that might add another 15W according to its "energy usage bar" which sits at about 25%. 110W "idle" with firefox running + few opengl programs. 160W at steam startup, then it jumps between 120W and 160W. It stabilizes at 110W in about 2 minutes. 130-230W when compiling emacs (takes about 30 seconds). 150W when loading Facebook in Firefox. Then stable at 110W again. 175W-180W running Prison Architect. Very safe to add another 220W when running GPU heavy game (thats not very relevant here, new GPUs consumes ~same or more power). I'd say my "randomly guessed" 130W amortized is pretty OK. And remember, this guess was for reference only, scale it to your needs. Of course it can get higher when having a lot of things up and running, with a lot of active tabs in firefox.
ekianjo 4y ago
250w at idle? Sounds unlikely
- maccard 4y ago
  I actually wasn't clear - I have a dual slot Xeon so it's really two xeons. But yes,it really is just shy of 250w idle

4 ms·

130w is definitely low. My Xeon workstation is closer to 250w.

by maccard 4y ago

130w is definitely low. My Xeon workstation is closer to 250w.

ac29 4y ago
It runs at 250W 24/7?
- metadat 4y ago
  170w to 300w for an older (2010-2015 era) dual-processor Xeon idling is what I've measured at my house across numerous Supermicro builds. 2018 and newer server chips may have better low-power idle mode support.
  - metadat 4y ago
    I want to add that I do thoroughly enjoy and appreciate my trusty old 2U Supermicro dualie from 2014-era Xeon parts. Even if it does idle at 170w, the build was less than $2k, it has 50 cores, 384GB ram, tons of storage.. 1 year uptime, so sick! Has not let me down yet! Even if the mobo croaks, it's easy to source a cost-effective replacement from fleabay.
- maccard 4y ago
  Welli turn it off out of working hours but it idles at 250w yeah. Peak power draw is much higher.
hexo 4y ago
I've just measured it with wattmeter. Xeon E5-2697v2, 64GB ram, SSD + 2x HDD, GTX1080. Excluding monitor, that might add another 15W according to its "energy usage bar" which sits at about 25%. 110W "idle" with firefox running + few opengl programs. 160W at steam startup, then it jumps between 120W and 160W. It stabilizes at 110W in about 2 minutes. 130-230W when compiling emacs (takes about 30 seconds). 150W when loading Facebook in Firefox. Then stable at 110W again. 175W-180W running Prison Architect. Very safe to add another 220W when running GPU heavy game (thats not very relevant here, new GPUs consumes ~same or more power). I'd say my "randomly guessed" 130W amortized is pretty OK. And remember, this guess was for reference only, scale it to your needs. Of course it can get higher when having a lot of things up and running, with a lot of active tabs in firefox.
ekianjo 4y ago
250w at idle? Sounds unlikely
- maccard 4y ago
  I actually wasn't clear - I have a dual slot Xeon so it's really two xeons. But yes,it really is just shy of 250w idle