fjaoos Posted January 9 Share Posted January 9 Hello everyone, I have read tons of power consumption threads but now I am more confused than before. The requirements: Network storage for documents, pictures movies and so on Plex Maybe some VM and docker play, maybe Home Assistant (currently on RaspiPi 3B+) Low idle power consumption The beginning: I bought a cheap Dell Optiplex 7010 SFF with an i5-3570 and threw 2 Seagate Ironwolf 6TB (ST6000VN001) into the case and went with that for a while. Power consumption in idle was around 34W and I did not have a lot of troubles with it. The problem was the Dell mainboard which did not let you configure a whole lot and the temps in the small case. My "spare" windows PC was not used anymore I wanted to upgrade the server. Maybe newer components meant better power and efficiency. New build: Mainboard: Asus Prime B350-Plus (BIOS Version 6203) CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 1500X Cooler: Noctua NH-D15 SE RAM: G.Skill Aegies DDR4-3000 16GB (2x8GB) GPU: XFX Radeon RX 590 Fatboy SSD: Kingston KC2500 500GB M.2 NVME HDD: Seagate Ironwolf 6TB (2X) Case: BeQuiet Pure Base 600 PSU: BeQuiert Pure Power BQT L7 530W (Will be swapped with a BeQuiet Pure Power 11) Fans Front: Noctua NF-P12 (2x) Fans Back: BeQuiet Pure Wings 2 I managed to get the idle consumption to 38W but I would like to get this even lower. In Idle mode there is only Plex running in Docker and the only spinning fans are the 2 CPU Cooler Fans. The cooler is a massive overkill anyway but I have not managed to get them disabled at low temps yet. Do you think it is possible to get the consumption even lower or do I need to switch to team blue for that? Quote Link to comment
ConnerVT Posted January 10 Share Posted January 10 The first generation Ryzen CPUs have a bug which prevents them from going into the low power C-States in Linux, causing system freezes. So you won't find much power savings there. What are you using the RX 590 for? That is probably a good part of your power consumption. Quote Link to comment
fjaoos Posted January 10 Author Share Posted January 10 Good morning, so it would be better to switch to a later gen Ryzen? Since I scrapped the "Gaming" setup, I thought I might have this as a VM in unraid. In addition to this, the CPU does not have an internal GPU, sadly. Quote Link to comment
fjaoos Posted January 29 Author Share Posted January 29 So the solution was: Get different Hardware. I switched to this Asus H97-Plus Intel Core i5 4590T BeQuiet Pure Power 11 Noctua NH-D15 SE without fans With all the available power saving options in the bios switched to enable I now managed to drop to 24W with HomeAssistant VM running Quote Link to comment
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