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MSI FM2-A85XA-G65 (A85X) Motherboard Preview

We thought that we’d give you a little teaser into what the power consumption of the new A8-5600k APU could do at both idle and load, but for anything more, sadly you will have to wait till the full review.

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.

Idle

Load

At both idle and load, these numbers are some of the lowest figures that we’ve ever encountered which is a great selling point for AMD if they are aiming the APU and its subsequent products (motherboards) at the HTPC and small business market, much like we saw FM1 grace us for. The load figure of 81.9 Watts is actually lower than most CPU’s that we test, even when they are at idle.

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