I can run my N100 nuc at 4W wall socket power draw idle. If I keep turbo boost off, it also stays there under normal load up to 6W full power. Then it is also terribly slow. With turbo boost enabled power draw can go to 8-10W on full load.

Not sure how this compares to the OrangePI in terms of performance per watt but it is already pretty far into the area of marginal gains for me at the cost of having to deal with ARM, custom housing, adapters to ensure the wall socket draw to be efficient etc. Having an efficient pico psu power a pi or orange pi is also not cheap.

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daymanstep 3 days ago | parent [-]

Which NUC do you have? A lot of the nameless brands on aliexpress draw 10 watts on idle.

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spockz 2 days ago | parent | next [-]

I have a minisforum.

Boost enabled. WiFi disabled. No changes to P clock states or something from bios. Fedora. Applied all suggestions from powertop. I don’t recall changing anything else.

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Marsymars 3 days ago | parent | prev [-]

Not the poster you're replying to, but I run an Acer laptop with an N305 CPU as a Plex server. Idle power draw with the lid closed is 4-5W and I keep the battery capped at 80% charge.

	▲	geerlingguy 2 days ago \| parent [-]
		The N100/150/200/etc. can be clocked to use less power at idle (and capped for better thermals, especially in smaller or power-constrained devices). A lot of the cheaper mini PCs seem to let the chip go wild, and don't implement sleep/low power states correctly, which is why the range is so wide. I've seen N100 boards idle at 6W, and others idle at 10-12W.