I have a kill-o-watt meter and it shows the idle power at 54 watts with this i3-2100
I find this a bit high with the CPU cores at idle. It is a dell OptiPlex 790, 4gb ram,no add on video card, and a Samsung 830 ssd.
Why so many idle watts? My G2020 server idles at 19 watts and can go up high with p95 tests.
Its normal with the older Sandy Bridge systems. The mb can make a big difference.I have a kill-o-watt meter and it shows the idle power at 54 watts with this i3-2100
I find this a bit high with the CPU cores at idle. It is a dell OptiPlex 790, 4gb ram,no add on video card, and a Samsung 830 ssd.
Why so many idle watts? My G2020 server idles at 19 watts and can go up high with p95 tests.
I'd build them a 6600 non K system which will likely outlast them. The Core 2 is a hunk of junk and the SB i3 is tired compared to modern CPUs.