its ticking over doing nothing now: 56W. But his rig idles at 40 watts. That's closer to what (but still higher than) I expected. Still, a boatload of computing power for such low wattage. Its a low power cpu, most of those watts are going in psu inefficiency and support hardware. There comes a poi...

You're using the Xeon L3426 CPU and Intel S3420GPLC motherboard? What frequency is the memory? Can you post the rest of your system specs? I.e., number and make of hard drives, power supply, any additional video cards, etc. Pictures are always nice too! :) at the moment, 1 hd, some old 7200.12 and ...

[quote="matt_garman"] So... ignoring cost (which, with this solution is obscenely high), how low do you think idle power consumption will be with a 3420-based motherboard and a Xeon L3426 CPU? I know it's impossible to tell without getting the hardware and testing (not to mention implementation diff...