November 4, 20232 yr Starting from a Fractal Design Define R5 case, I'd like to know my options for building a low-power system almost exclusively used as a NAS, with the following guidelines: - total idle power draw of a few tens of watts or less - passive cooling would be awesome; is it possible at all? - using more-or-less regular components as opposed to, e.g., specialized industrial motherboards Should I be aiming for i3 CPUs? Older i3 CPUs versus newer i3 CPUs? What should I look for in a motherboard? Should I expect to tweak lots of BIOS and/or Unraid settings? Do modern PSU with different "color grades" (gold, etc.) really have different efficiencies when handling with low power draw? Should I look into external PSU options? Thanks for any pointers!
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