ASRock N3150 Braswell Motherboard Round-up Review

Power Consumption and Temperatures

Power Consumption

To measure power consumption we, use a “killawatt” meter and measure the total system power draw at the wall. We run three different use-case scenarios for 5 minutes and take the average reading.

Now the N3150 options start making sense. A mere 31W load, or under 24W while watching a HD video makes this the perfect option for a HTPC.

Temperatures

To measure the temperatures, HWmonitor will be used. The idle temperature will be recorded from the average core temperature and load temperature will be measured after 2 minutes of Cinebench and Unigine Heaven running together.

Well, those temperatures are very respectable, under 62°c at load. When the R9 290X is added, it produces extra heat itself, but the fans aided air circulation.