If not, that's fine, but I just want to know my options. You can just downclock any cpu and it becomes hugely more efficient. Your current xeon can easily stay sub 30w when locked at 2.4ghz. Tdp DOES NOT EQUAL POWER CONSUMPTION. It's a big thing people constantly mistake. It'...
You can't. Hardware encoding is fast as heck and relatively low power for the work it performs, but it's not as efficient in terms of 'Quality Per Megabyte' as software encoding. The hardware encoder on any GPU is a fixed ASIC that is built for speed and can't really be updated. A...
So while C8 would be a luxury, hitting C6 was a must. C3 uses too much power. If SATA controllers were going to prevent the CPU from hitting the best power saving states, I started to wonder whether I should have been looking for a motherboard with 6-8 SATA ports so that I...
Some GNOME stuff in the background would cause the CPU to bounce out of certain idle states, but if you’re trying to decide between Desktop and Server it’s really not going to make much difference in terms of power consumption. If you have a monitor hooked up you may as well use ...
Unraid box providing network routing, home automation services, and media services ( I love unraid!) USB Key:SanDisk 16GB Ultra FitMobo:Intel DX79SR Extreme+CPU:i7-3820Memory:16Gb Kingston HyperX PredatorStorage:(cache)480gb Micron SSD (1)8TB HDD (1) 4TB HDD ...