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Minisforum MS-01 idle power
Idle
13 W
Load
—
Yearly cost at idle, 24/7
$17.08
at $/kWh
- Type
- Mini PC
- CPU
- Intel Core i9-13900H (also i5-12600H / i9-12900H SKUs)
- NIC
- 2× 10GbE SFP+ (Intel X710) + 2× 2.5GbE Intel i226-V
- Price band
- $600–800 (barebones)
- Idle (as reported)
- ~13 W bare-metal idle (Ubuntu 24.04, 64 GB DDR5, 1 NVMe, unoptimised); ~13–35 W in production with several VMs; ~52 W average measured over a week with a full VM stack
- Method
- Wall meter (bare metal) + smartplug/Home-Assistant week average
- Source
- Minisforum MS-01 Power Use — scottstuff.net
- Source date
- 2025-01-08
- Dataset
- SolvoHQ homelab-mini-pc-dataset (CC BY 4.0) (repo)
- Accessed
- 2026-10-19
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