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		nodesocket 1 day ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: State of Homelab 2026 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.

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mrmlz 1 day ago [–]

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.

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