Low power recommendations?

[see.dante]

I'm wondering what the recommendations for a low power setup. Since HexOS isn't arm compatible, I'm wondering if there recommendations are. If anyone has success with a low idle setup, would love to know!

[Mobius]

here are some low power server builds (not necessarily on hexos/truenas)

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1LHvT2fRp7I6Hf18LcSzsNnjp10VI-odvwZpQZKv_NCI/edit?gid=0#gid=0

These are just some general things to keep in mind
you can can expect each hdd and ssd to add 2-7w at idle.
not using a discrete gpu will save you 10-20w at idle
keeping peripherals unplugged (monitor, keyboard, mouse) help a bit
old amd cpus have trouble if c states are enabled. (c states are kinda sorta low power modes)
fan power draw ads up
skip the rgb
 

[PsychoWards]

In addition to what M said, low idle power draw doesn't necessarily mean, low performance hardware, modern high performance HW also has amazing power savings potential & idle power draw, so you don't need to go low performance, or old HW.

Some easy wins are disabling unused HW/parts in the BIOS (Audio, onboard NIC if a dedicated NIC is used, Wifi etc...)