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I've just built a new quiet PC for the living room: i5 6600, EVGA GTX970, RX550 PSU and Cosair 250D case. When sitting idle, the PC is making what at first sounded like fan noise - it's not loud but certainly noticeable. At idle there are only two fans running: the 140mm case fan and the Noctua...

Yeah, it is really. This device will be on 24/7 so I can access files and backup clients to it etc. Every other search I've found has the idle usage of Skylake around the 50w mark which is way too high for what I'm trying to achieve. EDIT: These other benchmarks are obviously for complete...

Hi, Was thinking of buying another low power Pentium N3700 NUC as a HTPC but then heard that Skylake CPUs may only use a very small amount of power when idle or at least when not doing much. This article...