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<blockquote data-quote="Lehmden" data-source="post: 1157249" data-attributes="member: 109222">Hi.I can't see where the 84 Watt of the i5 came from. My i5 4590 system is eating up around 60 Watts at 100% CPU load, but measured on the power plug, so this is for the whole system with 15!! (no typo) HDD (5 of them are external USB3 disks, 10 are internal), AsRock mainboard, 8 GB RAM, an extra SATA controller, a dual tuner DVB-S2 card and a Canon printer (also it is normally in standby). Apart of this I'm using a cheap 80+ 300 Watts BeQuiet (manufactured by Fortex) PSU... If the CPU is idleing around (as it is most of the times) the power consumption goes down to around 30 Watts... This system it my only &quot;powerful&quot; system, it acts as a NAS for all my 20.000++ series episodes, as the MP2 Server (and for this TV Server too) and I'm using it for Photoshopping, Transcoding and all the other CPU eating things I need to do... And it is my main (Living Room) HTPC as it is build invisibly into a Drawer... (If you want to have a look, a link is in my signature)Also I'm pretty sure your Core2Duo did not eat that much power as my Core2Quad does (the Q6600 was one of the most power consuming desktop CPU ever), I also be sure a modern system will need significantly less power bundled with more CPU speed than your old system.For recordings it's possible for sure, but Timeshifting (that's when you are watching Live- TV) is really critical regarding timing. For this a USB drive may be not enough. The best is to use some GB of RAM as a RAM disk and use this for timeshifting. I'm doing so for many years now and I never had any issues with Live TV again since then.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Lehmden, post: 1157249, member: 109222"] Hi. I can't see where the 84 Watt of the i5 came from. My i5 4590 system is eating up around 60 Watts at 100% CPU load, but measured on the power plug, so this is for the whole system with 15!! (no typo) HDD (5 of them are external USB3 disks, 10 are internal), AsRock mainboard, 8 GB RAM, an extra SATA controller, a dual tuner DVB-S2 card and a Canon printer (also it is normally in standby). Apart of this I'm using a cheap 80+ 300 Watts BeQuiet (manufactured by Fortex) PSU... If the CPU is idleing around (as it is most of the times) the power consumption goes down to around 30 Watts... This system it my only "powerful" system, it acts as a NAS for all my 20.000++ series episodes, as the MP2 Server (and for this TV Server too) and I'm using it for Photoshopping, Transcoding and all the other CPU eating things I need to do... And it is my main (Living Room) HTPC as it is build invisibly into a Drawer... (If you want to have a look, a link is in my signature) Also I'm pretty sure your Core2Duo did not eat that much power as my Core2Quad does (the Q6600 was one of the most power consuming desktop CPU ever), I also be sure a modern system will need significantly less power bundled with more CPU speed than your old system. For recordings it's possible for sure, but Timeshifting (that's when you are watching Live- TV) is really critical regarding timing. For this a USB drive may be not enough. The best is to use some GB of RAM as a RAM disk and use this for timeshifting. I'm doing so for many years now and I never had any issues with Live TV again since then. [/QUOTE]

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