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this post was submitted on 30 May 2024
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This isn't speculation on my part, I measured the consumption with a Kill-a-watt. It's an 11 year old PC with 4 hard drives and multiple fans because it's in a hot environment and hard drive usage is significant because it's running security camera software in a virtual machine. Host OS is Linux MInt. It averages right around 110w. I'm fully aware that's very high relative to something purpose built.
Right, and spend even more money.
I think the main culprit is CPU/MB, so that's the only thing needed a replacement. Many cheap alternatives (less than 200$) that can half the consumption and would pay itself in a year of usage easily. There is a Google doc floating around listing all the efficient CPUs and their TDPs. Just a suggestion, I'm pretty sure after a year it would payoff its price, there is absolutely no need for a 110w/h unless you're running LLMs on that and even then it shouldn't be that high.