Re: Question on hardware upgrade path....

Daniel Tameling <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.freebsd.devel.hackers
Message-ID <[email protected]>
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
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