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GIGABYTE GA-X58-USB3 Motherboard Review
| Manufacturer: | Gigabyte |
| Product: | GIGABYTE GA-X58-USB3 |
| Date: | Thu, Dec 02, 2010 - 12:00 AM |
| Written By: | Dan Stoltz - |
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System Power Consumption
Since power consumption is a big deal these days, we ran some simple power consumption tests on our test beds. The systems ran with the power supplies, case fans, video cards and hard drives. To measure idle usage, we ran the system at idle for one hour on the desktop with no screen saver and took the measurement. For load measurements, Prime95's in-place large FFT's was run on all cores to make sure each and every processor was at 100% load for maximum power consumption and heat. We also ran Furmark 1.8 at 1280x1024 to put a full load on the graphics card. All systems were tested using identical hardware.
Power consumption of the GIGABYTE GA-X58-USB3 motherboard fell between our other Intel X58 boards. Total power consumption was 484 Watts at the wall, while our highest consuming Intel X58 Motherboard had a total power consumption of 502 Watts and the lowest was 457 Watts. Idle consumption has similar results with the GIGABYTE GA-X58-USB3 falling at the halfway point between the ASUS Sabertooth X58 and the MSI Big Bang XPower X58 motherboard.
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| Review Index |
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Page 1 - The GIGABYTE GA-X58-USB3 Mainboard
Page 2 - GIGABYTE GA-X58-USB3 Retail Bundle Page 3 - GIGABYTE GA-X58-USB3 Layout Page 4 - GIGABYTE GA-X58-USB3 BIOS Page 5 - The Legit Reviews Test System Page 6 - PCMark Vantage Synthetic Benchmark Page 7 - 3DMark Vantage Page 8 - SiSoft Sandra 2010 Memory Bandwidth Page 9 - USB3 Performance Testing Page 10 - Network Throughput Page 11 - Rightmark Audio Analyzer Page 12 - Aliens Vs. Predator Benchmark v1.03 Page 13 - System Power Consumption Page 14 - Overclocking the GIGABYTE GA-X58-USB3 Motherboard Page 15 - Final Thoughts and Conclusion |
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