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This is more just genuine curiosity, but is there a reason we don't see more low-power T chips from Intel in SFF builds? For instance, the 19-13900T has a max turbo TDP of 106W (allegedly). With 24 cores/32 threads, wouldn't that be a great chip even with slightly less performance than it's non-T sibling?

I've switched back to water cooling after a long hiatus. And I've run into an issue that I haven't experienced before. My GPU is drawing less power i.e. Watts than before, which has impacted the FPS in gaming. This is something I haven't experienced before. The GPU is a XFX THICC III 5700XT Ultra. I did switch out the old thermal pads for thermal grizzly, but I don't think that could cause any issues, as the PC powers on and there are no black screens / hangs / crashes. Google search on this issue only brings up how to lower power consumption, which doesn't directly deal with what I am experiencing. I'm using Hardware Monitor, MSI Afterburner and AMD Radeon to monitor the power consumption, which is driving me nuts. Even a full Furmark / Prime95 Test is not pushing past 60 watts of power consumption. Before, this use to be around the 200-255 watt mark. Specs: Ryzen 5 5600x CPU 32GB Corsair Ram 3600MHZ Ram XFX THICC III 5700XT Ultra (Owned for almost 5 years now) Gigabyte B550 Aorus Elite Motherboard Power: Bequiet Straight Power 11 Gold 750 watt. What I've done so far to try and fix it: 1. Swapping out the previous VGA / PCIE. Before, it was one 8pin to two separate 6+2. Now its 2x 8pins to 6+2. 2. DDU Fresh Drivers / Rollbacks 3. Default Performance settings for the Card 4. Bios Update 5. Turned off / on Re-size Bar and AMD Smart Access Memory I'm just short of draining my water build and opening the Graphics Card to have a look if there is anything unusual. But I'm not sure that's the issue. Everything seems to running well, even as I type this. The issues are in multiple games I've tested over the last 2-3 Days. None of my games, with the lowest settings set, are able to crack 30fps minimum. I'm honestly boggled. Short of draining, reapplying paste and giving it another go, I might have to fork out a few thousand for a new GPU, (Australian Prices for GPUs are shocking) which I'm trying to avoid at all costs. Looking to see if the community has bumped into this issue. I feel like I've attacked multiple issue solving angles here. Not sure. Provide your input and I'll be happy to answer any questions / queries. I'll be checking this throughout the day too. Thanks for the Read!

Hello Guys, I'm looking for some ideas for a high-efficiency pc build for 24/7 use. It should be able to run TeamSpeak server, one or two game servers (Ark, Minecraft, Terraria, etc...), maybe some FTP or small NAS like data share, and possbliy a small website. So I would need at least 8 GB of RAM I guess The power target for the whole system should be arround 15 watts if possible ( idealy less when idleing and not more than 30 under full load) I have an old 500 GB M.2 SSD lying around but other than that I have no spare hardware. I have thought of the recent Raspberry Pi 4, but I do not know I it would be powerful enough (and RAM could be a bit to small). For total cost (without SSD) I would be happy if it would not exceed 200 Euros/Dollar. So if you have any suggestions for, I would be more that thankful. I have build several gaming Pc, but I have little experience with low-power builds or even sever builds

Hi Guys, I am considering switching from my PC/internal 12TB, 4 HDD drive, Hardware Raid 5, to an external storage solution. My main concerns are: power consumption (Many cheap/big SSD not HDD), speed (10G Networking) and noise (embedded CPU) + freenas. Problem with the LTT vids is that it's either super duper expensive for high performance but also comes as a server package.... I would need one that silently sits under my desk and serves for the family as a big, fast, safe storage. At the same time i want it to be as silent as possible and not consume too much electricity. Anyone having a similar demand ? Budget approx $900 - 1200 perhaps a bit more for an endgame type solution. Form factor like a Fractal Node 804 Cheers, Balister

Budget (including currency): +-450€ Country: Germany Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: Unraid NAS Hey everyone, I am new to Unraid and would like to build my first new little low power server to mainly use as a NAS. Currently I am just using a FritzNas, which is way too slow and can only handle like 1 or 2 drives, since it runs over a FritzBox router and was never really meant to be used as a NAS. That is why I was always planning to get a real one and came across Unraid years ago, which offers much more than a prebuild NAS like Synology, QNAP etc. My Budget would be around 450€ without Unraid included. My plan for now is to use: HDDs: 2x2TB WD Blue drives that I already have & use with a USB HDD docking station (and back up with another 2x2TB by using FreeFileSync) Parity: 1x 2TB or up to 6TB parity drive to be able to replace my old 2TB drives with bigger ones in the future, if needed. (Needs to be bought) Cache: 1x 500GB Samsung 850 Evo SSD I have laying around as cache drive But of course it should have room to maybe add a second parity and second cache drive for more protection + 1 or 2 more data drives if needed in the future. The system should mainly be used as a NAS and streaming videos to my TV. Besides that I plan to run a few dockers and one VM here and there, so it shouldn't be too slow for that, while consuming the lowest amount of energy that's possible to avoid high cost when running it 24/7 here in Germany. I was already researching builds myself and came across two potential builds: Build 1: CPU & Mainboard: ASRock J5040-ITX J5040 Gemini lake Refresh RAM: 32GB G.Skill Ripjaws DDR4-2666 CL18 SO-Dimm Case: Fractal Design Node 804 Power Supply: Pico Power Supply / Modular 400 Watt Be Quiet! System Power 9 CM Modular 80+ Bronze (Kinda scared to use a Pico PSU, that's why I would prefer a normal one, even though it uses a little more power) HDD: 2TB HDD Planned to be bought later: SSD: 500GB Samsung 870 Evo (As second cache drive) PCIe Expansion Card: PCIe to Sata Expansion Card (For more than 4 drives later on) Build 2: CPU: Intel Core i3 10100 Mainboard: ASRock B560M Pro4 RAM: 16GB G.Skill Aegis DDR4-2666 CL19 Case: Fractal Design Node 804 Power Supply: Modular 400 Watt Be Quiet! System Power 9 CM Modular 80+ Bronze HDD: 2TB HDD Planned to be bought later: SSD: 500GB Samsung 870 Evo (As second cache drive) RAM: Another 16GB (to complete 32GB) The price for both builds is around the same +- 10-20€ and lays within my budget of 450€. If you have any advice for alternative builds, please feel free to share them. My big question is if the J5040 build is enough and the only way to archieve low power usage or if the more powerful i3 10100 would also be possible with similar power usage, since I have seen people got it down to similar idle usage, when making use of the different c states. I hope people here on this forum with more experience about Unraid builds and low power consumption can help me out with finding a proper solution and I want to thank everyone who is helping out in advance for their advices and help.

Dear all, im looking for a Solution that has not a single Point of Failure as a Home Solution aka some kind of Mirrowed Server Setup. Technology to use: Docker Management : Kubernetis (for nextcloud and mariaDB) Storage Solution: GlusterFS or CephFS Requirement: One Server can die without any outages Butget around 200-300€/220$-330$ (without Switch and HDD/ SSD) Some kind of low power solution Minumum of 3 Sataports per Device Minimum Gigabit Network Read Rate of 50+ Mb/s on big files via Network. My idea so far is to use 2x Odroid M1 with a m.2 to sata adaper with as they have low power usage (<5 Watt per Board) Each attached to 2 HDD's (Storage) and 1 SSD (OS + Database + Docker) which would be similar to a Raid 01 Setup Does anybody have any ideas that i should lookinto before starting this Project? Is GlusterFS / Ceph feasible as a mirrow setup? is Kubernetis the way to go for the mirrow setup? Is there better Hardware to do that on the Cheap without high Power Usage? Is the Hardware strong enough? Is the whole idea even feasible? Thank you for reading

Hello LTT Forum, I was wondering if there is any way that I can build low power system, that would be running only VM, containers. I would like to use i5 8600K (Once ZEN 4 will be out, I am planning to buy a new Ryzen, so this processor will not be in use anymore. I have no idea how to make this processor a low power one. I read about underclocking and undervolting but I am afraid of doing this and I would appreciate any help with this. What would be minimal power draw of this system? I would love to see it under 20w, but I have no idea if is this possible. Thank you in advance for the future advices

Hello All! I have a RTX 2080Ti that I bought a few years ago. I have been getting quite poor performance out of it - 2080 like performance. I am getting well below the average of 14k with a score of 10.4k. I just noticed that its not using 100% power when running 3dmark time spy so I believe this may be the issue. I have uploaded the two pictures for you too take a look at. I am completely stumped. PC Specs Corsair HX1000 PSu ASUS STRIX OC RTX 2080TI Gigabyte Z490 master mobo Samsung 970 EVO SSD G.skill Trident Z rgb 3200mhz ram 10700k @5ghz all core I tried: Reinstalling drivers completely with DDU reflashing the bios of the card (it has two so it was lower risk) putting the card in my gf's pc, DDUing the drivers, and running it again... and the behavior persisted. Replacing power supply cables. Switching the 12V rails. I have not tried a new power supply. Thanks for taking the time to help me out, I really appreciate it. I can get the logs of a Timespy run if you feel like that would help. ***EDIT: For clarity, the two humps in the below HWINFO graphs are the timespy run and the sensors were reset at the start.

Budget (including currency): 158 Euro rig only + 195 euro HDDs = 353 Euro Country: Poland Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: NAS for home lab backups + Plex server. 90% idle. Other details: Hi! I started my adventure with TrueNAS some time ago and wanted to build a cheap, low-power NAS for my Home Lab backups and media. I've decided to go with FUJITSU P757 as a base with 16GB of RAM and Pentium G4400 and modified the case to handle 5 x 3.5 HDDs (zRaid1). As this NAS is idle 85% of the time, I've decided to spindown the HDDs after 30 minutes without I/0. I would love to get feedback from you as I'm sure I could do many things better. Here are some details about the build: Barebones used FUJITSU P757 (Case, motherboard, PSU, basic set of cables, CPU cooler) 38 euro Pentium G4400 (used) 26 euro 2x8GB DDR4 (new) 55 euro SSD M.2 NVMe 128GB (used) 26 euro HDD 5.25 bay (new) 8 euro Cables (SATA, power, etc) 5 euro Without HDDs: 158 euro After installing a fresh TrueNAS Scale and without changing anything, the box was idling at 9W. Case modifications: By default, P757 has 5xSata 3.0 ports, but only 3 slots for 3.5 HDD (after converting 5.25 bay). I've decided to drill extra holes in the side panel to mount additional 2 drives. I made a template from cardboard for hole placements, drilled 4 holes per HDD, trimmed sharp edges, and painted holes with permanent black marker (for extra rust protection). Drives are mounted with screws and metal and disks are separated with rubber anti-shock rings. Thankfully the side panel is very sturdy and made of thick metal, so there is no wobbling or bending - everything is extra sturdy. I've used five HGST 7K6000 4TB drives I bought used (but tested), and paid 39 euros for each, which summed the HDD cost to 195 euros. Also, I had laying around a cheap 60GB SSD with USB interface I've used as an application pool. Temperatures and Power usage: Currently, with all 5 HDDs connected power consumption is: Idle: 40W Under heavy use: 55W Idle (HDDs spindown): 15,5W Max CPU temp (under load, for a couple of hours): 45C MAX HDD temp (under load, for a couple of hours): 47C

I have an Acer xc-885, 230W PSU, i5-8400, 1 stick of ram 8GB, 1TB HDD, blueray drive. According to PSU calculator I'm only using 163W. Would I be restricted to a low power graphics card like a 1030 or would I be able to squeeze in something more powerful?

Budget (including currency): Country: India Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: Python, Java Other details : I have been interested in low power computing for some time now. Got myself a Raspberry Pi 4, which is great for most of my uses. I have a desktop built around Ryzen 3950X. Now, the desktop consumes 300-350W under slight load, idles at around 200W, while the Raspberry Pi consumes 6W. I can still write my python scripts using the Pi. So I use the desktop only when it comes to the final execution. I was hoping to get a similar low power consuming SBC which is x86 based and has a little bit of more power, memory, threads than the pi. Any suggestions? Also, I was looking the new Ryzen 4000 laptop processors, which consume 15-45W and wondering if we can get motherboards with compatible socket in the market.

I have a Ryzen 5 Pro G and wish to know if it can be set up to use less power like a Ryzen 5 Pro GE. This is to reduce the power bill if I leave the computer running as a file server. The motherboard is a Fatal1ty B450 Gaming-ITX/ac. It already has a Ryzen 3 Pro GE on it but I don't know if it'll be enough to run video games every now and then.

I'm looking at building a home server to serve as a NAS as well as run a few other fairly lightweight things. Since I already I have an H81 1150 mobo, I was thinking I'll buy a Haswell Pentium used off of Ebay. When looking for that, I'm seeing a lot of SKUs with a T on the end. So what is the difference in performance between, say, the G3220 and G3220T? There must be more of a difference than a reduction in clock speeds to bring the TDP down to that of the T model. What am I missing, and would the T SKU make a better or worse choice for the server?

Hello! I'm looking into building my own NAS. I looked at QNAP and Synology and other pre-built units, but they get on the pricey side for what I'm looking for (usually before adding in the drives!). So I'm fairly settled on this parts list and am planning on running FreeNAS on it, but I'm wondering what thoughts you all might have - especially in regards to what kind of cooling would be best for this setup. EDIT: I threw a Zalman CNPS8900 Quiet cooler onto the list, but I'm not entirely certain if that'll be best. The lower power CPU shouldn't require a ton of cooling, right? 1. Budget & Location I'd like to not go over $2500, and the further below that the better. I'm in the US. 2. Aim This is intended to be a fairly straightforward large NAS, with enough horsepower to be able to transcode video files for Plex if needed. Having the quietest, lowest power draw possible without sacrificing that capability is my primary concern. I'd like to be able to build this thing and not worry about running out of space for several years. I may also flip this for SMB storage of VMs or other data (likely via SFP+) at some point in the future. 3. Monitors None planned. 4. Peripherals Potentially adding in SFP+ card in the future, but none initially. 5. Why are you upgrading? I'm using a WD My Cloud EX2 Ultra right now, primarily for Plex, but also other file storage. This gets the job done, but doesn't really have the ability to transcode very well. It's also limited to two drives, which I'm using two 4TB drives mirrored, and upgrading beyond 4TB drives right now starts to get crazy. I'd like for this to be a machine I don't have to touch beyond software updates for several years. Apart from deciding what cooling solution to use, I think this is pretty decent for a NAS. I had thought water cooling might work, but I'm thinking that's overkill for a chip that draws 25W. Fanless would be great, but I don't want to burn it out either. What are your thoughts?

This is mostly "pie in the sky" territory right now, since this plan won't materialize until after we move into a new apartment where my usual PC won't be within reach of the living room TV anymore. But I enjoy planning PC builds as much as I enjoy actually building them, so why not. The TV is just a dumb display. The only things that will be connected to it will be the game consoles and something that will let us watch YouTube and videos stored on our NAS. Currently, my PC is doing that second task. Now, we could just go with something like an Intel Compute Stick https://www.amazon.com/Intel-Compute-Computer-processor-BOXSTK1AW32SCR/dp/B01ASB0DJ8/ But where's the fun in that? So here's the requirements: - Cheap as possible - A small as possible - No need for on-board mass storage since the NAS handles all that, enough for the OS and that's it - Ethernet LAN preferred over WiFi - Low power consumption at idle, this still will rarely shut down - Steam In-Home Streaming a plus, but not mandatory - Good YouTube playback (1080p60) - Media player support for something like VLC or Media Player Classic Home Cinema - Discrete GPU not required now but being able to upgrade into one later would be cool So what parts might you all recommend?

i want to make a low power nas build the budget is around 800 euros (without drives and case that i have) also it will be running raid 5 with 8 drives any suggestions? using amazon uk

Hey peeps, I just setup my NAS today! i7 5820k ----> underclocked to 2.4 Ghz for power efficiency AsRock x99 m-itx Node 304 <3 2 x 10 tb seagate ironwolf 250 samsung 850 evo cache kingston 32 gb hyper x fury flash drive Antec earthwatts 550 Gold But the last bit is a little irritating . As I am using x99 and a 5820k, i need to have a video card. I am currently using an HD7950 Ghz Edition as my display driver. That as we all know is a very power hungry card. I was wondering what is the cheapest and lowest power gpu i can put in there for 24/7 operation Cheers Guys

The title might be a little clickbait but what I want to ask is, Can you guys help me make ( or give me ideas ) a pc that is not power demanding ? I dont want to play on it, I dont want to use it for much.

well as a person with both a laptop and a gaming pc some times i wish my laptop was more up to per with my gaming pc, so i start the going throw the web to finds ways to have a better graphic card, i start look at all the eGPU but after looking alot see that my laptop dont have thunderbolt 3 and only 2 usb 3.0 and 2 usb 2.x i saw no luck there, but not giving up i keep look and found the "exp gdc v8" made i china for people that want to use the laptop to gaming or something, so after look think i end with that being my idea but the is a problem now call graphic card because i don't want have a extra PSU to feed the card so i start looking for cards that only need the 75W from the PCIe and what i have fun rigth now is the RX460 GTX750/750TI and GTX950 so what one should i chose for preforms ? some ekstra info (the exp gdc v8 is gonna be on my m.2 so i get better speed then mPCIe or NFGG ver and if you want to know why i want a graphic card for my laptop simple Lan and when i am out to see my old folks for a week to two weeks i simple do want to carry my 20 KG set after i don't have car so need to use the bus and so)

Hello All! In this post I'm just going to provide some information about my usage of a Sapphire RX 560 45w (low power) edition 4GB DDR5. This card is a sub $100 card for when you just need something that's new and will do 1080p gaming with decent FPS on normal/low settings... because... budget. I purchased my RX 560 to go into my DL380 G6 so I can use it for various tasks that require a GPU. First, though, I tested it in an older PC I have, which is one of those use cases this card would actually be worth it. An old Acer Aspire M3970 with an i5-2320. This card is a low power, only 45w, and doesn't need additional plugs. I thought, yeah this should work in everything. But then I noticed, it's a PCIE 8x card only, as it only has half the pin connectors. That should be fine, no problems. But for some really odd reason, it just wouldn't work in the Aspire M3970. The card is backwards compatible with PCIE 2.0, so that can't be the problem. I couldn't find the power for the Aspire motherboard PCIE slot, so I can only assume it's less than 45w. That sucks. I then tried the card on another system, also PCIE 2.0 but a non-OEM motherboard. Yep, it worked immediately. So check your motherboard PCIE power support before buying this card for an OEM system, you may be disappointed. Alternatively get the non-low power one and plug in the PCIE connector. All-in-all, it's a great card. Runs cool, very quiet, even plays GTA V at 1080 Normal settings and averages 50 fps. So would I recommend this as a budget card? Yes.

I am using a gtx 570 in my system, that i bought shortly after it came out. I don't do much gaming at all its not really my thing. my current card uses a fair amount of power and is loud. I want to upgrade for a quieter more power efficient card, with a little gain in performance. Not bound to a particular side (amd/nvidia) any suggestions on what card to buy ? Thanks

I'm looking for a 4 core 8 thread low power CPU on a budget. Any suggestions?(must include internal/onboard graphics) When I say budget I mean "at any budget".

So, I have a X79 Sabertooth and a I7 3930k laying arround and I am thinking about building a NAS server (a small one) with this parts, but The 3930k is a Power hungry processor, what I want to know is if I tune the BIOS to Power saving (only 2 cores, turbo boost off, hyper threading off) and all of that, The 3930k Will be a viable option for a low consumption NAS server?

I have a 300 watts power supply and I was wondering if a gtx 1650 super would work with it even though its minimum power says 350 watts. My system is gtx 1050 2gb, 16 ram 128 GB nvme 1 tb hard drive i5 8400. I just want to do 1080 60 fps gaming smoothly as my 1050 can't in apex legends and escape from tarkov.

I am looking to setup a low power server for an RV. I want it able to run virtual machines and run limetech Unraid. I was thinking a system based on Intel Atom C3958.. http://www.nextwarehouse.com/item/?3308280_g10e&gclid=CjwKCAiAhp_jBRAxEiwAXbniXXfU5v2X96zilcfYYnD16VepdHDOktgBG-tRECSsxvKAdHQJp8QBOxoC6qoQAvD_BwE