I’m planning on building a secondary server that can process more intense tasks than my current basic home server. Tasks such as light gaming (think “remote Steam Deck”), and later allowed to be upgraded with a Nvidia graphics card to handle AI tasks, such as LLM and SD.
The problem
While I have no problem picking parts to build this as a “desktop computer”, I’m completely lost when trying to make it power efficient for idle load (if it’s even possible with a power-hungry Nvidia card). I’d appreciate some guidance even if it’s not a full parts list suggestion!
Watching Wolfgang’s videos has unfortunately not translated knowledge into practice for me yet. At least I know TDP isn’t an absolute determining factor anymore.
Planning the build
Due to a limited budget, the idea is split the build in 2 phases.
With all the helpful comments shared in this thread, I’m starting to realize that this approach is likely the only viable solution.
Previously when doing my research, I was naive enough that when people said “…30W at idle”, it was specifically for their GPU, and not for their whole system. So now things makes a lot more sense.
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You can probably ignore the idle power consomuption and enable Wake On LAN and turn it on and of over the network. Is that a solution for you?
one of those pi kvms or the like could turn on any system even if it doesn’t support wake on lan
With all the helpful comments shared in this thread, I’m starting to realize that this approach is likely the only viable solution.
Previously when doing my research, I was naive enough that when people said “…30W at idle”, it was specifically for their GPU, and not for their whole system. So now things makes a lot more sense.