I’m also considering upgrading but my rig draws 80w at idle and I don’t think I can get much lower on current platforms (at least not enough to make it worth the hassle).

Here’s my build: -Z590 Hero -11700K -100mV undervolt -Strix 4080 OC -32GB 4 stick @3600MHz -1x 1TB Pcie 4 Samsung 980 Pro -2x 512GB WD SN750 -4x 140mm fans -3x 120mm RGB fans -Bequiet DarkRock Pro 4 cooler

A lot of the idle power draw is the 4080 driving a 4k120Hz OLED TV as my monitor, if I set it to 1080p 60 with NIS power draw drops to just 65w which is kind of insane for such a beefy build.

Ah shit. Wanted to put my 4080 to transcode over the weekend (AV1 is the shit) but I doubt I can do that while streaming Star Citizen during the free fly week.

Still awesome go have though.

This is why I disable turbo boost on all my Intel machines that don’t actually NEED single core performance.

My most used laptop is a 2019 16” i9 MacBook Pro that gets loud and hot as hell on the default power plan but simply limiting the CPU to 99% makes it whisper quiet, cool and it can run on an 18w iPad power brick with the as long as the brightness isn’t maxed out and I’m not stressing the Radeon 5500M GPU.

Same with my 10w micro Optiplex AD/MSSQL server; the old 4th gen i5 runs Windows server 2022 plenty fast and boot times are insanely quick. Sure, if it had a production database serving thousands of clients at a time then it would definitely crumble but I don’t need more power for a local AD/dev-staging db.