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		nottorp on March 29, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: $39 Cooler Master case turns your old Framework La... Hmm what's the power consumption of these (parts of) laptops? And how bad it is power wise and cpu wise to have usb-c ethernet instead of pci? Thinking home server here.

yurishimo on March 29, 2023 [–]

To you question regarding Ethernet, USB-C is capable of running faster than gigabit. I think it's around 5 gigabit? The PCIe lane from an add-in card is still being used in either case. The power difference would be negligible.

nottorp on March 29, 2023 | [–]

But at what CPU usage cost? And thus, power usage. On the CPU side not the adapter side.

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