Asus F2A85-V Pro (A85X) Motherboard Review
Andy Ruffell / 12 years ago
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.
At idle, the board used average amounts of power when we compare against the other high-end FM2 boards and at load it ended up drawing the most amount of power. The overclock boosted these numbers slightly but still remained under 300 watts at load and under 100 watts at idle.
