Hello, I’m planning on getting a new mid-high end PC in the near future. It’s been like 8 years since my last PC, and I’m planning on getting the 14600k, but I’m still unsure. So I need some advice.
I use my computer every single day at the very least 12 hours a day. My daily usage would be browsing, watching videos (Youtube & downloaded movies), daytrade, data entry (MS office), writing, Photoshop, and other various low workload activities.
I usually only play video games on the weekend, so I need to get a rig that’s mostly use for basic daily activities, but powerful enough for smooth gaming when I need it to.
The thing is, there’s a bit of z6xx boards scarcity, so the price is a bit skewed, and b/z7xx is really expensive on where I live. And I really need a mid-high end boards because I requires the ports and the storage slots, so I can’t really skimp out on this one. I was considering in getting a 7800x3d since apparently the cost difference of the 7800x3d + board is just slightly a bit more expensive than 14600k + motherboard, so I’m just thinking about the long run now since apparently amd has idle/low consumption issues.
What I wanted to know is that, what is the average power consumption for basic daily activities? The power bill on my country is quite high, so I want to try minimalize the monthly cost as possible. I heard that Intel is incredibly efficient during idles, but what about using it for workload like above? Does that still apply? Can anyone that uses this chip share their experience?
Also I’m aware that I’m posting this on Intel because I’ve always been using the blue chips, but I hope you people can keep the bias to minimum because I really could use the unbiased advice.
The idle power consumption for my 12900ks is about 18 watts with a similar workload. (This is avg over 72 hours without games. About 350 watts in cinebench, 140 in a game). My 7950x would use about 75-80 watts and my 7950x3d uses about 50-60 idle.
With any intel cpu from 12th gen and afterwards, idle power draw should be around 3 to 5 watts and browsing the web or doing simple spreadsheet work etc should be between 8 and 15. That’s if you have set up C states properly and balanced power plan.
My 12900k with 2 videos streaming (YouTube and twitch) browsing the web while on a discord call is below 10 watts.
Right now for me on reddit I’m using about 20w with my 13600KF, if you’re worried about power consumption you can always under volt and add a power limit
How do you track this please?
For really low power you need to get a wall meter or similar. The built in CPU power meter only gives the CPU power, and at idle a lot or even most of the system power isn’t dissipated by the CPU.
Not speaking for that poster but I use UPS for watts reading.
By UPS do you mean an uninteruptable power supply?
Yep, i have a CyberPower CP1500PFCLCD.
CPU-Z or HWID i dont remember which i used
Or watt meter from wall socket.
But is it necessary?
No. Unequivocally no.
Not what you asked, but for context and whatnot: my 7800X3D sits around ~18 Watts at idle, ~20 Watts with YouTube, Steam and whatnot. In gaming it’s anywhere from 25 to 55 Watts.
That’s pretty low for gaming. Not too bad
13600k.
Idle: 2 to 3 watts. Am running an undervolt of 0.085 and I turned off g4m0r b00st fe4tur3s in bios
135 watts is the maximum, and also sustained, all-core load I’ve seen. Normal consumption for “low workload” is around 12-50 watts. Usually around 15-20 watts for stuff like typing this comment
I’m not sure about idle wattage, but my 13600k pull 175 watts under load.
I’m running it at 5.5ghz, though.
My 1400kf is overclocked and has all cores unparked so it idles at around 30W :I
If you’re going to buy a GPU then that will be most of your idle power. The couple watts from everything else will barely register. Pick a GPU with good idle power.
Not at home currently to confirm my numbers, but my heavily overclocked 13600kf is only using roughly 20-50W doing light workload such as those you described. Full stress it’ll hit 215W
Not a 13600K exactly, but my system with a 13700K idles around 65W (measured from the wall with a Kill-A-Watt).
System specs:
- 13700K, power limited (PL1/PL2) to 165W
- MSI Z690-A PRO DDR5 Wi-Fi, C-states and other power saving features turned on
- Balanced power plan in Windows
- RTX 2070 Super
- 2 monitors - 1 27" 1440p 120Hz monitor plugged into the RTX 2070 Super, and the other a 27" 1440p 60Hz monitor plugged into the motherboard (I’ve heard this setup reduces idle consumption compared to plugging both into the RTX 2070, but I haven’t done a comparison)
- Corsair RM650x power supply
- 5 Arctic P12 A-RGB fans set to a dim green
I have 14900k with an Asus 360mm aio right now and at idle it gets about 36 to 39°C and under a decently hard load it gets high 70s low 80s but usually in the high 50s and 60s during a decent gaming mode. May I suggest if you’re choosing between CPUs definitely go with the 14 700 K because they upgraded the best since the 13 GEN out of all the other chips they went from a 16 core to a 20 core chip. And it gets 200mhz higher frequency for p cores and 100 MHz higher for e cores… you can unlock the full potential of these chips with the new z790 refreshed boards which added new dimm flex technology to make ram temps more stable and aemp 2 which also helps u iverclock ram if you use 4 sticks of ddr5
I have a 13700k (which is pretty much the 14600) and my CPU sits around 25-30w as I type this. I played a bunch of games last night then it’s done nothing overnight but left on. It’s average power draw is still at 37w. Peaked at 131w when gaming. It can draw 300w when benchmarking.
This is surprisingly higher than other people who are claiming whole system at 10w. I find that a little hard to believe with the heat this dissapaits. It does feel more like an old school 30W light bulb amount of heat. Very technical I know.
Not sure how accurate HWINFO is either though.
I recently bought an 14600k and I was surprised how easy is to cool this chip due to low consumption (30-50w) during gaming or light workloads and at idle state it stays under 10w.
If you really want to keep the CPU efficient, as a few folk already mentioned undervolt and set the short and long power limit setting under 180w is the solution.
I’m also considering upgrading but my rig draws 80w at idle and I don’t think I can get much lower on current platforms (at least not enough to make it worth the hassle).
Here’s my build: -Z590 Hero -11700K -100mV undervolt -Strix 4080 OC -32GB 4 stick @3600MHz -1x 1TB Pcie 4 Samsung 980 Pro -2x 512GB WD SN750 -4x 140mm fans -3x 120mm RGB fans -Bequiet DarkRock Pro 4 cooler
A lot of the idle power draw is the 4080 driving a 4k120Hz OLED TV as my monitor, if I set it to 1080p 60 with NIS power draw drops to just 65w which is kind of insane for such a beefy build.
My 13600k idle power usage was very low. Like less than 10w sometimes.
it will be between 75-150w for idle-light tasks, with full power being considerably more but adjustable to whatever you want.
amd chips tend to consume less power.