AMD FX-4130 Black Edition Processor 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.

Given the slightly faster clock speeds we do expect to see slightly higher power consumption and there is only a slight one at that, but overclocking see the power usage rocket to over 400W at full load, and 240W at idle, over double to what the system uses with the CPU at stock speeds.