I've recently upgraded my ageing X8SIL Supermicro with an i5 to a X10 Sm board with a 2960 V4 14core Xeon... I was expecting a horrible power situation but it's less than 100w with a handful of spinning disks etc.

I see lots of people complaining on power with their re-used ProLiant and others etc. Is it the throttling or bios settings that messes with the idle power?

Or are you just running it at 100% and my low usage is what saves my electricity bill?

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nodesocket 9 hours ago | parent [-]

I'm at about 150 watts at idle with 2x Intel E5-2640 with 8x drives. I've gone through the BIOS pretty thoroughly and optimized as much as possible.

	▲	mrmlz 9 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Ah okay 150w is not _that_ bad - more than a rpi for sure but still :) And another cpu+chipset is always going to eat som Watts just by existing.