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Have you enabled Eco mode? You can do so manually in the BIOS if you can't use the AMD software (e.g. https://www.pcworld.com/article/1352253/how-to-enable-eco-mo...)

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It seems like AMD's power savings just doesn't compete with Intel. I'm a few generations out of date, but my computer setup idles at ~200W, whereas a few-generations-older Intel HEDT that it replaced idled near 50W. Not turning my computer off at night costs $14 a month!

(BTW, monitors will get you. With my monitors on reading HN, I'm burning 400W!)

Holy cow, that’s a lot of power just for idling. For comparison, a Mac Studio idle at 9-10W:

https://support.apple.com/en-au/HT213100

I've played with it before yeah. But I think ultimately it comes down to the io die never really clocking down, the wattage per core is insignificant as far as I can tell thanks to parking and entire ccd. Same story with my gpu which for some reason thinks running vram at 2ghz at idle is necessary.

At least this heat prepared me for summer :D

Try physically disconnecting all but one monitor, AMD's broken power management with more than one monitor has been a meme for about 15 years now.

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