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This would be great, I get frustrated with so many games running terribly with stuttering and awful 1% lows on FPS, despite my hardware meeting/passing the recommended requirements.
It would be nice to see real data on that before hand, instead of needing to buy a game and ending up refunding it an hour later.
Mini PCs are even less usually, mine are around 2W idle which is less than my Pi! (i3-7100u CPUs)
Newer hardware that has lower idle consumption mostly. I’ve found there’s not much to do on a typical setup as far as software optimization, as most OS’s are already set up for pretty low power usage while idle.
HDD sleep can work if you don’t have anything accessing the drives, but with all the stuff running on my server there’s basically always some kind of activity going on so they never sleep. Less HDDs is the answer for me, I just have 2 large drives in a ZFS mirror.
My HP box with an i5-7500 idles around 15-20W which is decently low, but I also have 2 PCs with i3-7100u mobile chips that idle at 1-2W with 32GB of RAM and an NVMe SSD, which is wild.
Avoiding enterprise gear is key, it’s extremely power hungry.
True, hopefully they’re collecting frame time data as well.