Gigabyte B75M-D3H Motherboard Sandy Bridge 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.

Power is where this board starts to get even more interesting, with a low idle power usage of 80.3 Watts. When on load, the results went to 223.7 Watts, which is still remarkably low considering the other components we used with this board.