I got R740XD idle draw<90W! Battling with GPU idle draw
Sharing my findings. I have 2x 4116, 384G Ram, BOSS S1, and 2x 2T M@ server NVME, all these idle 80-90W with PVE, no VM, 1 PSU. This is about as low as you can practically get a 14Gen I reckon.
I ended up removing HBA330 and disconnection front backplane. they draw about 40-50W with a couple SSDs in it, really not worth it comparing to M2 NVME
If you want to push the extreme, remove 1x CPU about 15-20W, a few RAM stick, 3-5W, BOSS S1 (use USB or IDSDM with clover) another 3-5W, so 60-70W idle.
Battling with GPU, could use some help
With nvidia-smi, I find my GPU each 10-15w idle, but from wall, each GPU adds 40-50w idle. I know CPU & MB will draw more with more PCIe occupied, but wasn't expecting extra 30-35W for just that.
Does anyone have experience reducing that 30-35W gap?
Posted Mar 16, 2025, 1:13 AM UTC