Asus P8Z68-V LX Z68 Motherboard Review
Andy Ruffell / 13 years ago
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.
Power consumption showed that due to this being a budget board, they have managed to chop a few things out which has allowed the board to run more efficiently. Due to this, you can see that our 2700k based GTX 580 SOC system still manages to run on relatively low amounts of power.
