13700kf idle power draw

[Mr Mcgoo]

I have an issue with my 13700kf at idle. It sits idle at 30+watts while dropping to 800-1500mhz at under 900mv. That is fairly high personally as my 10700k at idle was pulling 10-12 watts. Anyone know what could be doing this?

 

[Mr Mcgoo]

Have you checked it is actually idle i.e. Windows isn't doing updates stuff in the background, etc. ?

Something not right there though the 13700KF should sit at sub 10 watt idle easy - my 14700K is sitting at between 4W and 22W with light desktop use.

Yeah a couple friends have the 14700k and the 13900k and both use less the 15 watts at idle. i have afterburner, hwinfo, rtss and roccat swarm open as that's needed but surely it won't cause idle issues? However disabling these does nothing for idle power

It depends if this is a setting in the BIOS that has been changed or disabled, or a software problem. Some software can prevent deeper sleep states.

bios has sleep state c6 ebabled and eist to allow lower voltage and core speed at idle. as stated above it does idle but at higher wattage

 

[Mr Mcgoo]

Try going to your power plan and check the minimum cpu power state in Windows. Sometimes this can get set at a higher percentage. Set it to 5%, if not already.

already set to 5%. i can't for the life of me figure this out