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I would like to see an in depth video for low power hardware capabilities. Power consumption is always my main concern, but I also want a capable machine. As for now, it would seem a Ryzen 5 2400GE is the best on the market for performance/energy efficiency, being better than a GT 1030 and using a maximum 35W at full load being a quad core cpu too. The apu is also much much better than intel's equivalent igpu. I'm not interested in mobile platforms due to the BGA sockets and lack of ports. I want to see measurements of power from the wall and what software says about how much power, and the effect of using a titanium power supply (lowest I could find is 600W) since they have 90%+ at 10% load. With an SSD, a Mini-ITX AM4 desktop with Ryzen 5 2400GE would probably use 50W at full load and be able to play Tomb Raider at 30+fps on Ultra Settings at low resolution (13XXx768?), which to me is very impressive

I have no experience with messing with clock speeds and such plus the PRO has some workstation features, only problem is that the GE model it is not a cpu you can buy easily, they come in prebuilt machines. I edited the OP with my current build, it's now perfect. It's only taken me 4 years to finally configure a Mini-ITX SFF NAS. Thanks a lot for the AMD recommendation.

The Ryzen 3 2200G has about twice the TDP of the 8700T. The AMD is about 65W while Intel is 35W. When going for low power AMD has never been a solution that I have noticed. Honestly getting away from Intel Management Engine is a great idea, but the power consumption of AMD is too bad. EDIT So nevermind, I looked it up, and the Ryzen 5 Pro 2400GE is the perfect solution. It has a tdp of 35W but the gpu in it is good enough to replace the GT 1030. Thanks a lot for the recommendation, I'll be reconfiguring for AMD.

EDIT Since I solved the case issue I think this should be moved to New Builds and Planning. I don't think I can do that. After a lot of configuring, I have settled on the components below. I've been working on putting together a low power capable SFF NAS for like 4 years, and have finally succeeded. Problem I always ran into was lack of 4 x 3.5" and 1 x 5.25" bays in a Mini-ITX case. Here is my build APU : Ryzen 5 PRO 2400GE w/RX Vega 11 RAM : 16GB (2x8GB) Corsair Vengeance DDR4 2933 MOTHERBOARD : ASUS ROG Strix X470-I STORAGE1 : 500GB SAMSUNG 970 EVO PLUS STORAGE2 : 4x10TB HGST Ultrastar He10 HDD PS : SILVERSTONE Strider SST-ST60F-TI 600W 80+ Titanium OPTICAL : ASUS BW-16D1HT HEATSINK : AMD Wraith MAX CPU Cooler with RGB LED CASE : BitFenix Prodigy Mini-ITX Still deciding on a PCIe to SATA or M.2 to SATA for the optical. I'm thinking a M.2 to SATA would be best so I still have the PCIe slot.