UtterDisbelief
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In terms of power consumption, you should always enable the IGPU, let the IGPU doing the multimedia jobs, like hardware H.264/HEVC decoding.
for example, one of my setup
Z77N, E3-1225 v2 with P4000 IGPU, 120GB SSD x1
System power consumption (not include the monitor)
System in idle ~ 32W
1080p H.264 video playback (with IGPU hardware video decoding), ~ 35 - 39W, depends on the video bit-rates
1080p H.264 video playback (without IGPU hardware video decoding, i.e. CPU software decoding), ~ 50W+
Thanks. That's good information.