Asus Maximus IV Gene-Z Z68 Motherboard Review

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.

Being a ROG board, it should be quite power hungry, but on the same hand, it’s also a Micro ATX form factor, but we can see on idle we saw some impressively low power results, even when overclocked. At load, the most the system pushed out when overclocked was 232.8 Watts.