Any experience with Zen 1 idle power consumption running Proxmox?

Submitted ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨aluminium@lemmy.world⁩ to ⁨selfhosted@lemmy.world⁩

Hi, I’m planning an doing an upgrade to my hardware and I’m eying a used Ryzen 1700 or Ryzen 1800 (they are dirt cheap now and have an excellent upgrade path once people sell of their Ryzen 5000 CPUs).

I’m however a bit concerned about the idle power consumption of such a System. My plan in terms of Software is to migrate my existing Proxmox System which is running 4 VMs and 6 LXC containers at the moment. Most of which are at < 3% CPU Ut. 99% of the day. Has anyone got any numbers or rough estimates how big the idle power draw of such a System would be? For a graphics card (just to have some kind of display output) I plan to use a GTX 220.

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brockhold@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
I run a 1600X as a Proxmox host, I have used TLP to set all of the configurable that are exposed, and it idles at 70W. There are a few other things consuming power though - a spinning HDD, a discrete GPU (quadro 2000) doing zero work, and four DIMMs.

This is helpful to heat my apartment in the winter, but regrettable overall.

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Chewy7324@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
I have a server with a Ryzen 3 3200G with a B450 mainboard. The system has 16GB RAM, a boot SSD and a 16TB HDD. With proxmox and a few VM’s installed with low CPU usage I’ve read 25-30W from a power meter.

Keep in mind that the system relies on the integrated GPU. If it had an dedicated GPU the power consumption would probably increase around 10-30W.

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Nickall01@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
I tried proxmox with a Ryzen 1400, a GTX1060 Ti, 3 HDD, 1 NVMe. On proxmox I had a couple of VM and 1 CT. I had 70W on idle which is too much for me :)

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- aluminium@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  ok that is wild! thanks!
  
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stown@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Would like to know this too. I have a 1600x sitting in my spare parts box since my desktop upgrade about a year ago. Been wondering if it’s worth it to set up some kind of game server with it.

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FuzzChef@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Hmm the prices on eBay really don’t seem that good to me in comparison to newer generations. I guess the power consumption will eat up any savings pretty quickly. Though this might differ for whole sets.

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