Re: Question on hardware upgrade path....
Daniel Tameling <[email protected]>
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On Sat, Feb 14, 2026 at 09:15:09AM -0500, Karl Denninger wrote: > > I'd like to improve compute performance however energy efficiency when idle, > which it often is, is important as well. As it stands right now it idles on > a "full system" basis with the spinning rust drives spun down (which they > often are as the OS and high-use stuff is on SSD or nVME) at a very low > power consumption, but obviously when highly-active either for compile or > I/O that goes up a bunch which is fine. Losing the current very low idle > power consumption (on a comparative basis) is not a trade I want to make. Previous AMD zen generations have a reputation for higher idle power consumption than Intel. Not sure whether this changed with the last two generations. Best regards, Daniel