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Have been using a 7735HS (6800H) based mini PC for the last few days, very impressed with it -- the entire machine idles at 10W, light load < 20W, medium load at < 40W and heavy load ~ 60W. The fan isn't on most of the time. The latest generation is likely better, and U series is even quieter. It has better performance and produces less heat than my Intel NUC and laptop.

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10 watts idle, really? That seems extremely high. Do you have C-states disabled?

He quoted entire machine @ 10w not just the cpu.

Which is worse than Coffee Lake era systems. I suspect misconfiguration, a truly awful power brick, or inaccurate measurements.

FYI I had an NUC8 (i5) which was about 10W when idle.

Oh by the way I saw people say their Mac mini (M1) idles at 8W. I couldn't verify it but I think the number is reasonable and they are all within close range of each other.

Please tell us what mini pc is

Minisforum UM773 Lite

(I hesitated a long time before the purchase, because I wanted the combination of an Intel NUC warranty and reliability, AMD CPU, good design & cooling plus a good price -- which of course does not exist. However I haven't had an issue so far, and I hope it lasts long)

I have heard of the instability of this Minisforum under certain CPU loads. Do you confirm it?

Could you elaborate what you mean by "instability"?

I have used the machine for a number of tasks -- remote desktop, video calls, development with IDE, building Chromium, and benchmarking and haven't seen a blue screen so far. (Yes using Windows)

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