Asus Sabertooth X79 Motherboard Review

To test power consumption, we monitor the overall power of the system through a plug-in electricity usage monitor at an idle and load state. This allows us to show the fluctuation between how much power draw the system takes at idle and at load. By monitoring the overall usage of the whole system, it gives an easy comparison if you wish to do the same yourself as opposed to buying very expensive individual testing equipment.

Power consumption on the whole is relatively low and whilst the overclocked results may look high, it’s worth noting that we have an early revision CPU which needs a few more extra volts to get a high overclock and this translates to more overall power being used.