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Dell OptiPlex 7060 Micro idle power
Idle
18 W
Load
—
Yearly cost at idle, 24/7
$23.65
at $/kWh
- Type
- Mini PC
- CPU
- Intel Core i7-8700 (65 W TDP, six-core) / i5-8500T SKUs
- NIC
- 1× 1GbE Intel I219
- Price band
- $100–170 used
- Idle (as reported)
- just over 18 W idle (120 V) on the 65 W-TDP CPU — notably higher than the 35 W 'T' chips (~11–14 W)
- Method
- Wall meter (ServeTheHome 120 V)
- Source
- Dell OptiPlex 7060 Micro at 65W TDP CPU overview — ServeTheHome
- Source date
- 2021
- Dataset
- SolvoHQ homelab-mini-pc-dataset (CC BY 4.0) (repo)
- Accessed
- 2026-10-19
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