60 watts to illuminate just one room used to be the norm. Now it sounds insane. Maybe losing the perfect color rendering index was a worthwhile tradeoff after all.
60 watts to illuminate just one room used to be the norm. Now it sounds insane. Maybe losing the perfect color rendering index was a worthwhile tradeoff after all.
My own setup uses less than half of that at peak (when my server is running at 100%, which is very rare).
Then again that’s because my server is an N100 Mini-PC that doubles as a TV Media Player and which I chose explicitly for the low TDP of the CPU (just 6W).
It’s actually pretty insane how mainstream PC tech for quite a while just kept going up in power consumption (hence people needing 500W+ power sources) until at some point there was a period when CPU and GPU makers actually made some effort towards better power efficiency, though that period is over and we’re back to graphics cards using so much power you need multiple standard molex power connectors to feed them.