My Home Lab Server with 20 Cores / 40 Threads and 128 GB Memory

Re:My Home Lab Server with 20 Cores / 40 Threads and 128 GB ... by fnord77 on Tuesday August 13, 2019 @01:55PM (#20688431)

would newer hardware idle at even lower wattage than 15W? Or is that about the best one could expect?

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Re:My Home Lab Server with 20 Cores / 40 Threads and 128 GB ... by eropple on Tuesday August 13, 2019 @04:21PM (#20689822)

Newer, maybe slightly but not hugely. (It's all still kinda warmed-over Skylake.) You could get cheaper with lower-TDP chips, but there are definitely diminishing returns on the floor.

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Re:My Home Lab Server with 20 Cores / 40 Threads and 128 GB ... by rhinoceraptor on Tuesday August 13, 2019 @02:00PM (#20688498)

For a full desktop class chip, I think that's about as low as it can go. You could go lower with something like a NUC, but 15 watts is really good. 15 watts idle would cost something like $1.50 to $2 to run 24/7.

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