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Your second case is rather...optimistic given the amount of background work any modern OS does. My i9 desktop will start to spin the fans up with light web bro
by TylerE 4y ago
Your second case is rather...optimistic given the amount of background work any modern OS does.
My i9 desktop will start to spin the fans up with light web browsing.
To be precise, even at true zero load, an i9-10850k (what I've got) draws 25-30w. Any sort of load at all and it gets to 60+w. A gaming type load is well over 125w.
- jeffbee 4y agoMaybe you should choose a better operating system?
- BirAdam 4y agoNo. That's just the modern web. If a person needs to use the modern web, he/she needs to use a browser. If he/she needs to use a browser, it is almost always going to be Chrome (or something built on Chrome). Chrome is heavy on Linux, BSD, and macOS as are many of the pages it loads. The web can spin up fans on Intel, AMD, and ARM when I am running NetBSD, Slackware, or Intel Clear Linux.
- LawTalkingGuy 4y agoPut a CPU limit on the process. I do it for gaming to keep Dwarf Fortress from pinning my CPU even in the menus.
- jeffbee 4y agoIf you are measuring that correctly it means that your operating system or something about your platform is utterly broken. `turbostat` and `powertop` on my i7-13700K indicate that it is currently, at "true zero load", drawing 1.1W
- TylerE 4y agoNot my measures… measurements by people who run hardware websites. i9 is much hotter than i7, especially the high end ones. When I bought the cpu the only thing higher (without getting into server grade stuff) was the 10900k which was basically unobtanium.