Gigabyte A75M-UD2H FM1 Llano Motherboard Review

Power ConsumptionTo 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.

These boards and all of the Fusion range as of late including Brazos and Lynx have been banging on how little power they use and at idle and load it did prove that to be a successful feat. Only when overclocked to 3.5GHz did we see the power rise above 200 watts, but still remains a lot lower than a lot of different platforms on the market today.