Intel Xeon E3-1230Lv3 1.8GHz “Haswell” 25W CPU Review

Power Consumption

We run five different power scenarios to achieve our power consumption results. The first is “idle” by letting the system idle for 5 minutes on the Windows desktop. The next is “CPU Load” using AIDA64’s CPU stress test. The next is “3DMark11 Load” which is based on the peak pulled power consumption during the final combined test run. The next is “GPU Load” using AIDA 64’s GPU stress test and finally “CPU and GPU Load” using AIDA 64’s combined system stress test. All power readings are taken at the wall for the entire system.