Question Intel Core i3 8300/8300T power consumption when idle

[adrhc]

Hi, anyone could please tell me what's the power consumption of Intel Core i3 8300 and 8300T when idle?

 

[Sgt. York]

2nd hit on Google

 

[LTC8K6]

8300T is not the same as the 8300.

I couldn't find any reviews.

 

[Qwertilot]

Isn’t it basically the same except obviously capped to 35w maximum sustained power draw?

 

[LTC8K6]

Well, the power draw is the question.

I guess you could try to extrapolate from similar chips.

 

[Qwertilot]

Hence my answer 🙂 iirc last time I saw anyone looking at this - a few generations ago! - they didn't do anything like picking specially efficient chips out for the T's.

They just restrict the maximum sustained power draw to the much lower limit.

 

[Shivansps]

If you are looking at power efficency i would recomend the I5-7400, even trought it is a 7th gen CPU, it is a very power efficient thing.

I got 25W idle, 30W youtube, 55W CPU load (OCCT), and 60W CPU+IGP). And you could improve that with a 80plus psu.

 

[adrhc]

I just bought i3-8300 with some other parts (see https://pcpartpicker.com/user/adrhc/saved/QqzBbv) and it takes 22.8W/h while idle (and without the Seagate - Barracuda 1 TB). That 22.8W is an average for 5h 50min of light usage (text files edits, short browsing, ~ 10 reboots and console working).