ASUS ROG Maximus Z790 Extreme Review
Peter Donnell / 1 year ago
Operating Costs
With the cost of living increases across the world, especially when it comes to the cost of electricity, it’s worth looking at the cost of running a processor and how it compares to similar products on the market. By taking the average cost per kWh, we can calculate a rough running cost at idle, during a simulated workload test (Cinebench R23), to give us worst-case scenario costs, as well as gaming costs during a run of Cinebench R23.
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The idle clocks do seem to be running hot on this motherboard, but all those additional I/O controllers and chipsets may explain that. Largely though, this motherboard is designed to be running hard rendering video or compiling a scene, and when its under load, the operating costs are actually pretty average.
