Quote Originally Posted by Halk View Post
For me it's all about the idle power. I have a reasonably high spec system, but for the most part it just sits idle, or eventually goes to sleep. If I do play games it's not for a lot of time, generally. Most time I'm on the PC it's just browsing the net etc, which has a very low drain on the system.

So what matters to me isn't how efficiently it crunches through data, it's more about how little power the board, cpu and graphics card use when idle.

I'm all for having lots of power on tap, but I want it to gracefully idle at low wattage consumption when I'm not using it.

then only power up your rig when you need it ...


and problem solved ....