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One major drawback of the chiplet arch.

I found that having steam open caused my ryzen 5 3600 to go from 3 watts idle to multiple tens of watts. Chromium under the hood is so stupid.

Is that a from-the-wall number or just the CPU?

My 5950x desktop pulls like 60W from the wall at idle in linux.

It doesn't help that the x570 chipset uses like twice the idle power of the x470 it replaced.

I have a b550 chipset. It's got Gigabyte's high end VRM circuit, though.

Damn. I'll have to test again, but mine idles around 120 W IIRC.

My UPS reads 150W when my monitors are both powered on.