Hard drives, especially spinning discs, and RAM are probably the biggest factor at idle. I dropped my servers’ idle draw from 220w to 180w by dropping it’s RAM and replacing some older drives.
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cygnus@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
How is it possible that it draws 100W at idle? What is it even doing?
dogma11@lemmy.world 2 months ago
paraphrand@lemmy.world 2 months ago
People underestimate how more RAM can be more power usage.
lka1988@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
The PC was drawing ~90W. All solid state, no spinning rust. Lots of fans though, since it’s air-cooled. Not entirely sure what was causing the draw, but it’s definitely something I want to investigate at some point.
LiveLM@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
Check your GPU power usage, I remember seeing people complaining about theirs not clocking down if they had a second monitor plugged in, and other similar issues
lka1988@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Worth a look. One monitor uses HDMI, the other uses DisplayPort. They’re just cheap 1080p monitors to get me by until I toss them for an ultrawide 1440p unit.