Intel celeron j1900 power consumption

[SOZ84]

Because my AMD athlon II x4 640 is a bit overkill for HTPC use, i replaced it with a different mobo and cpu: Intel celeron j1900. I am disappointed with the power consumption though. At idle it pulls 27 watts At the plug. Under light to moderate load it pulls 35 watts. I think this is quite high since iTs TDP is 10 watts. Is this normal or is this high power consumption A result of a cheap and inefficiënt psu?

Thanks for your feedback

 

[mlga91]

It pulls 35 Watts on the wall plug, thats 10W from the cpu, and add the power that hard drives, optic drives, motherboard etc. 35W at the wall plug sounds good to me.

 

[jaguarskx]

You need to take into consideration that other things consumes power like the motherboard, RAM, and hard drive among other components.