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.
One of the key aspects with looking at a mainstream board is the to-be-expected lower levels of power consumption when at stock speeds. Naturally the P8Z77 does just that and topping out at only 220W at full load is not bad going. Idle consumption is a little higher than expected, but sitting well below 100W is still highly acceptable.
Mainstream boards are the manufacturers bread & butter. I like this board. While the ROG boards only cater to the minority of people this kind of board makes the most sense to me personally. Although I’ve had a number of ROG boards pass under my nose which I’ve played with & tested, my personal rig which is very mainstream. I like the fact that this one has a legacy PCI slot as I still use an Asus Xonar sound card which is PCI. I have no intention of replacing it anytime soon. It’s sound is far better quality than the integrated sound bundled with most (if not all) high end boards & it’s overclocking capabilities are more than enough for most people. I owned (if I can call ‘owning’ parts I’ve managed to con from the suppliers) this particular model of board for a while and I was more than happy with it, in fact I’d still be using it if I hadn’t managed to snaffle a newer mainstream board from Gigabyte which is just as good.
I have it , its very good board , and ASUS is always the best and my favourite when its coming to motherboards
From what I have been reading Asus makes good boards but the RMA process is amount to: Just throw out the mobo and buy a new one. It is that bad.