April 12, 20179 yr Hey I have run my Unraid server on following hardware. Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-F2A88XM-D3H Cpu: Amd 860K ram: 8gb psu 600W when I measured the idle power consumption it run at 30-38Watt But I got some new hardware from an another computer. Motherboard: gigabyte GA-z97p-d3 Cpu: Intel I5-4460 Ram: 8Gb PSU 600W But now my idle power consumption is 70-76W. Anyone know If this power consumption is normal with intel? I thought it would be more power efficient than Amd. But maybe I have overlooked some settings to make it all better.
April 12, 20179 yr It's not typical at all. You shouldn't see any more than 25W idle with any recent Intel. Some will idle in single figures (my old Fujitsu TX1310M1 server with E3-1226v3 idled at 8W). I think there's something not set correctly in the BIOS of the Gigabyte,
April 12, 20179 yr The z97 is a fancy consumer chipset with wifi, etc. I agree, you may need to turn some things off.
April 13, 20179 yr Author I have figured out the problem. I changed back to the old hardware, but then I got idle consumption at 90w. I tried move the computer from the extension cord and directly into the wall socket and I was back to the 35w. So changed back to new hardware and I now see around 35w on that. So it must be my watt meter that didn't like the extension cord with other items plugged in to.
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