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X15 workstation cuts idle power vs dual-Xeon rig

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A dual-Xeon Proxmox workstation idling at 135W was replaced by 45HomeLab's X15, which idles at 67-70W after tweaks. The X15's Intel i7-14700 ran 35 LXC containers and multiple VMs under 60% CPU, with proper IOMMU for TrueNAS HBA passthrough.

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