@wamo PowerD only manages power at the mainboard and downstream component level, not what's upstream. A power supply will always take a certain amount of watts for itself even disconnected from the board. I would run PowerD at 'Adaptive' if I were you. It both upscales and downscales very quickly. 'Minimum' will lock it at the lowest CPU frequency, regardless of load, hurting performance. 7W is nothing, that's a single old-style Christmas tree bulb.
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