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Can I make my PC with RTX 3090 into a server with low idle?

Reddit r/buildapc·u/exe163·about 1 month ago
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Can I make my PC with RTX 3090 into a server with low idle? This is my main PC, mainly used for gaming, paired with a 14700 in an SFF chassis. I usually put it to sleep when it's not being used due to its high power draw at some 80-100w idle. I checked most of the power state configs, especially the GPU, and they seemed right. And I don't have many peripherals attached either, with HWMonitor64 showing <10w for the CPU and 40w for the GPU (P8). I have a 140mm AIO which is taking the rest of the power, which I could replace. I am just graduating from a Raspberry Pi 4 as my janky home server. As I was looking for something better to do most Plex streaming and NAS (no fancy stuff, just want bulk file slow access). Older Intel chips and 1L PCs keep coming up as recommendations. I was minmaxing cost and passmark performance. Then I thought, here I am, with a powerful PC mostly in sleep mode.…

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