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daymanstep 3 days ago

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.