Power Consumption and Temperatures
Power Consumption
This chip is not a high powered monster, so it’s no surprise that it uses such a small amount of power. At stock clocks, it’s using no more than 72.2 Watts. Even overclocking wasn’t enough to push it over 100 Watts. This means it’s going to be affordable to run, but also mean it should be nice and cool too.
Stock
Overclocked
Temperatures
As predicted, this CPU runs very well and at full load it was a breezy 33C, and with an ambient temperature of 21c in the office, that’s simply amazing. The stock or a budget cooler is going to be more than enough to run this chip, even while overclocking.
Stock
Overclocked
R3 is meant as competition to the i3 intel line, while its always good to see budget hardware punching above its weight a lot more reviews should actually review the 1200 and 1300X in the correct context. Not using the same RAM kit on both builds is also going to skew results.