My current setup is below but I am not utilising it as much as I thought I would. I want to downgrade to a more power efficient rig, sell the graphics card and just run dockers and the odd VM. My current system idles at about 100W.
Intel Xeon E5-2695 v3 unlocked allcore 3.2GHz
ASRock X99 Extreme 6
80GB DDR4 ECC RAM
3x3TB + 4TB parity drive
1TB Samsung PM951 NVMe
500GB Crucial SSD
Phanteks Evolve ATX case
EVGA G2 850W PSU
Nvidia GTX 1060 6GB
unRAID 6.6.5
So as I see it my approaches are (1) just change my 14 core E5 processor to a lower power v4 one and see if I can tweak BIOS settings etc, perhaps implement sleep hours during the night and so on to lower general running costs. Alternatively (2) replace the motherboard, CPU and memory with something else like a modern Pentium Gold or 8th gen i3 (for Plex hardware transcoding)
Any ideas? I don't think I can re-use my memory with a 1151 motherboard and i3 so would need to sell that and buy some more. My E5 is one where I have BIOS unlocked it to get an all-core boost of 3.2GHz across all 14 cores. It would be nice to have hardware transcoding as I share my library with friends and it often transcodes. Is my PSU too high powered? would a lower power one be more efficient?
Intel Xeon E5-2695 v3 unlocked allcore 3.2GHz
ASRock X99 Extreme 6
80GB DDR4 ECC RAM
3x3TB + 4TB parity drive
1TB Samsung PM951 NVMe
500GB Crucial SSD
Phanteks Evolve ATX case
EVGA G2 850W PSU
Nvidia GTX 1060 6GB
unRAID 6.6.5
So as I see it my approaches are (1) just change my 14 core E5 processor to a lower power v4 one and see if I can tweak BIOS settings etc, perhaps implement sleep hours during the night and so on to lower general running costs. Alternatively (2) replace the motherboard, CPU and memory with something else like a modern Pentium Gold or 8th gen i3 (for Plex hardware transcoding)
Any ideas? I don't think I can re-use my memory with a 1151 motherboard and i3 so would need to sell that and buy some more. My E5 is one where I have BIOS unlocked it to get an all-core boost of 3.2GHz across all 14 cores. It would be nice to have hardware transcoding as I share my library with friends and it often transcodes. Is my PSU too high powered? would a lower power one be more efficient?