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Lenovo ThinkCentre M720q Tiny idle power
Idle
12.5 W
Load
—
Yearly cost at idle, 24/7
$16.43
at $/kWh
- Type
- Mini PC
- CPU
- Intel 8th-gen T-series (STH tested Pentium Gold G5400T; i5-8500T SKUs exist)
- NIC
- Intel i219 1GbE
- Price band
- $120–200 (used)
- Idle (as reported)
- ~11–14 W idle (dual-core G5400T config, 120 V wall); an i5-8500T config draws somewhat more
- Method
- Wall meter (120 V)
- Source
- Lenovo ThinkCentre M720q Project TinyMiniMicro Feature — ServeTheHome
- Source date
- 2020-09-05
- Dataset
- SolvoHQ homelab-mini-pc-dataset (CC BY 4.0) (repo)
- Accessed
- 2026-10-19
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