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by Synaesthesia 1755 days ago
Your PC uses 60w idling? Is that with screen? It's not too much in that case. CPUS and GPUS have gotten a lot better at idle power consumption, and PSUs are also quite efficient these days.
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As discussed here [1], a fairly beefy Ryzen/RTX setup is often found idling around that number.

[1] https://hardforum.com/threads/killawatt-owners-whats-the-idl...

Downvolt and downclock your RAM when possible. Turn off VRM phases when not needed (also on the GPU; RAM should be handled properly already on it).

Allow package-C6. Turn on PCIe power saving stuff.

There is a bunch of stuff that mildly hurts performance and greatly improves efficiency in intermittent workloads, by letting hardware sleep/power-off when not needed.