I enjoyed talking about power efficiency on my channel, but right now I'd rather suck a jean jacket through a paper straw than make another video about a sub-20W server or C-States (which might explain the lack of videos in the past two months).
I'm still looking for a good niche to hyperfocus on, so please be patient
Funnily enough, the moment I realized that replacing my 'production' home server every time I find the goldilocks motherboard + CPU combo isn't a good idea – was the moment when I learned to settle on "good enough" instead of chasing the most performance-to-efficiency ratio.
And I guess that's the only piece of 'de-influencing' advice that came out of it. Your 30W server is probably fine, even if it only goes down to C3.
Wolfgang
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