MSI X670E ACE Motherboard Review

Power Consumption

Power consumption is measured at idle, during a Cinebench R23 run and during a gaming benchmark run of Cyberpunk 2077, which is a very CPU-intensive game. By getting 3 performance metrics, it allows us to see a better picture of the average user and what they are typically going to see in terms of power draw for just the processor itself.

Another area which does differ, but is much harder to measure, is power where a little while ago, we decided the easiest and fairest way to display power measurements would be through the power draw at the wall, when the only component that changes in our comparison is the motherboard itself, with all other components remaining the same, obviously to keep it as fair as possible.

What we found here was that at idle, the ACE did end up using more power than the likes of the AORUS Master from Gigabyte, but was still under 100 Watts for the complete system. CPU, GPU and everything else. While at load that figure rose to 289 Watts, which again was higher than some of the competition but only by around 1-4% or so when compared to other X670E based boards.