Sapphire Pure Platinum A75 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.

In terms of power, the Asus is the most efficient at idle whilst at load it shows the the Sapphire is the clear winner even when we had installed the 6670 for using CrossFire between the APU and discrete graphics card.