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I just threw in the 100 watt as a baseline because my 10+ year old rig runs that while idle and we seemed to be talking about using our older computers as the m
by samtho 3y ago
I just threw in the 100 watt as a baseline because my 10+ year old rig runs that while idle and we seemed to be talking about using our older computers as the media player or home server.
- fomine3 3y agoAccording to this, 12yo Sandy Bridge PC uses 52W to 74W. 100W is hungry even over 10 years ago. https://www.anandtech.com/show/4083/the-sandy-bridge-review-intel-core-i7-2600k-i5-2500k-core-i3-2100-tested/21 https://www.anandtech.com/show/4083/the-sandy-bridge-review-... https://www.anandtech.com/show/7003/the-haswell-review-intel-core-i74770k-i54560k-tested/2 https://www.anandtech.com/show/7003/the-haswell-review-intel...
- somehnguy 3y agoYou’re forgetting about the rest of the computer. Processors don’t run in isolation.
- fomine3 3y ago> Total System Power Consumption
- samtho 3y agoThe very machine I had in mind was actually my sandy bridge setup, specifically my i5 unlocked (K-skew) which I had a GTX-660ti (with a reported 110 watt TDP, but at idle it’s quite a bit less). Throw in the two spinning rust HDDs and, at idle, it does exceed 100 watts.