Asus P8Z77-V LX (Z77) 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 board that is aimed at a budget/mainstream market, we wasn’t expecting high power usage and that’s exactly what we can show here. At idle, we got a result of 71 watts and at load, a staggering low 215 watts being used across the whole system.