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Is there a way to improve power efficiency? (alien.top)

submitted 2 years ago by Accomplished_Ad7106@alien.top to c/homelab@selfhosted.forum

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My server has a X9DRH-IF motherboard, with dual Intel Xeon E5-2650 v2, and 256gb of ECC Registered RAM in a 16x16gb configuration. My power bill is getting ridiculous, Is there a motherboard CPU combo that would be comparable but more power efficient? I would like to keep the RAM if possible and keep the budget small if possible.

I don't care what brand CPU as long as it works.

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[–] sk8r776@alien.top 1 points 2 years ago

OP your issue is really the old platform. You will be sacrificing a lot to get to around 200W even idle, with dual sockets. I have a set of E5-2690 v2s I got rid of a few years ago for this same reason.

You have a couple choices. You can slim down your hardware, remove a cpu, downgrade the cpus workload permitting, removing some ram will help.

If you truly went to be more efficient, it’s really just newer hardware. Even consumer hardware if you don’t care for some server grade stuff like ipmi or pci features. Unfortunately you are talking about CPUs that came out 10 years ago now, lots has changed and up until current era efficiency wasn’t a big topic.

Beauty of running Unraid is you are not tied to hardware, so you can even upgrade or downgrade in stages as you get funds.