Intel’s ATX12VO Power Standard Successfully Halves Idle Power Consumption in New Test

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As you may have heard, Intel is working on a “new” power standard called ATX12VO, which only supplies 12 volts to the motherboard for simplicity and efficiency. An early test published by Heise Online suggests that ATX12V’s replacement works as advertised, decreasing idle power consumption by as much as half on a Core i9-10900K system with SATA SSD and 16 GB of RAM.



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