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yup... I still have the 2012 Budget Mini-ITX system here if you'd like me to pull the card and do an idle power test for you. Hi Apoptosis. Where you able to test the idle power consumption without the card? I need to order parts soon and would like to get that input if possible. Thanks! Any update...

Apoptosis wrote:yup... I still have the 2012 Budget Mini-ITX system here if you'd like me to pull the card and do an idle power test for you.

Hi Apoptosis. Where you able to test the idle power consumption without the card? I need to order parts soon and would like to get that input if possible. Thanks!

I would really appreciate that if it is not too much trouble. This would help me a lot in my decision regarding the parts required for my NAS.

Thanks for your reply. So this would suggest, if extrapolating to the ASUS P8H77-I Motherboard & Intel Core i3-3220T CPU build without a discrete graphics card, that such system would run 10-15w less at idle. Is this correct?

Hi Apoptosis. I know it has been a while since someone posted in this thread, but do you have data on this setup running without the GTX 650? I sure would like to know how much additional power can be saved from using the integrated graphics. I am looking into this setup for a NAS, and thus would no...