Hi, I’m planning an doing an upgrade to my hardware and I’m eying a used Ryzen 1700 or Ryzen 1800 (they are dirt cheap now and have an excellent upgrade path once people sell of their Ryzen 5000 CPUs).

I’m however a bit concerned about the idle power consumption of such a System. My plan in terms of Software is to migrate my existing Proxmox System which is running 4 VMs and 6 LXC containers at the moment. Most of which are at < 3% CPU Ut. 99% of the day. Has anyone got any numbers or rough estimates how big the idle power draw of such a System would be? For a graphics card (just to have some kind of display output) I plan to use a GTX 220.

  • Yuumi@lemmy.mlEnglish
    3·
    1 year ago

    I can’t say anything about Proxmox or any power management tool as a fact, but I can tell you that my 1600X is running hella hot at idle on Linux. I’m dual booting and on Win it’s idle at 30° while on Linux 60°. Hope this can give some insight, or if anyone knows how to fix this pls tell

    • bookworm@feddit.deEnglish
      41·
      1 year ago

      You probably need to enable some power saving features that Windows does by default but Linux may not. Run something like https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/TLP just to see if it helps, and then do some tuning because it might be too aggressive.

    • aluminium@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      Ok thanks, it then seems like some Software thing. Are your clock speeds also higher under linux when idle?

      • Yuumi@lemmy.mlEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        The running frequency seems to be the same on both, around 3.5 GHz on idle (weird I know). I’ll do some more testing and come back to you with the results