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ECS A85F2-A Golden Board (A85X) Motherboard Review

Power Consumption

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.

In terms of power draw, the board pulls a very low 71 watts at idle and 242 watts at load which are extremely low numbers considering we test with extreme graphics like the AMD Radeon 7970.

Overclocked to 4.4GHz sees the power draw increase on both idle and load usage but idle still remains under 100 watts at 89 watts and load remains under 300 watts at 279 watts in total.

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Andy Ruffell

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