My Home Lab Server with 20 Cores / 40 Threads and 128 GB Memory
Neat machine, but 96W idle is a lot for a home server, IMO. Maybe you're somewhere where power's super cheap (and hopefully clean), but a lot of folks aren't.I run my old desktop (a i7-6700K) in a rack in my basement, now, with 64GB of RAM, a Mellanox Connect-X for 10G networking, and half a dozen disks, and it idles under 15W. The entire rack, UniFi stuff/POE wifi APs and all, sits around 50W. 96W just for a single machine is A Lot.