PC drawing 200W in IDLE

[191x7]

Something isn't right, my PC (with all the peripherals) draws 200W from the power outlet during IDLE.

It's the PC from my profile (Ryzen 1600X, 16GB ddr4, R9 380X, 5 HDD 2SSD, G3 550W, 2 displays).

It's not the Power Profile, it's not something with the UEFI settings and it's not even overclocked.

When I turn the monitors and the speakers OFF it drops to ~160W. What could it be?

[GoldenLag]

Sounds like windows is doing stuff in the background. That can bring power consumption up a bit

[191x7]

3 minutes ago, GoldenLag said:

Sounds like windows is doing stuff in the background. That can bring power consumption up a bit

I will try booting some Linux and see if the powerdraw changes. That's actually a good recommendation, thanks.

[Indus Monk]

32 minutes ago, GoldenLag said:

Sounds like windows is doing stuff in the background. That can bring power consumption up a bit

Yes, That seems about right. I remember that Win 10 still collects telemetry data,

 

his means max disk usage and a less responsive machine.

 

There is a solution, but posting that would ban me here at LTT

[GoldenLag]

9 minutes ago, AmbarChakrabarti said:

Yes, That seems about right. I remember that Win 10 still collects telemetry data,

No, it would be windows update or windows file explorer doing stuff.

 

Or if you have Onedrive that would also be doing stuff.

 

200watts is still quitw. Bit however.

[AbydosOne]

9 hours ago, 191x7 said:

Something isn't right, my PC (with all the peripherals) draws 200W from the power outlet during IDLE.

It's the PC from my profile (Ryzen 1600X, 16GB ddr4, R9 380X, 5 HDD 2SSD, G3 550W, 2 displays).

It's not the Power Profile, it's not something with the UEFI settings and it's not even overclocked.

When I turn the monitors and the speakers OFF it drops to ~160W. What could it be?

As a bit of a benchmark, my Ryzen 1600X system (16GB/GTX770) and my i3-4170 server and all my networking gear together at idle draw 150W.