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Re: TRULY Custom RAM Timings for GPU's with GDDR5
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wacko
on 25/02/2017, 18:31:57 UTC
oh,thats my home computer, i5 clocked@4.4MH , a few coolers, 2xhdd 1xssd, so i think it's all ok to consume 105w Cheesy
Unless it's an old i5 (pre- 1150), you might have power saving features disabled. Haswell and Skylake / Kaby CPUs overclock just fine with power savings on, but you gotta enable them properly in BIOS (had 4770k@4.6 and then 6700k@4.8 and in both cases the idle power consumption was pretty much identical to a non-overclocked system). It's all those "C states" that are usually disabled by default, if you enable them the board+cpu+ram shouldn't take more than 40-45W. A couple of spinners would add 15-20W at most (or even 0W if they're powered down when you don't access the files from them). Coolers' power consumption varies a lot though depending on the size and rpm.