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ECS P67H2-A Black Extreme Motherboard Performance Review
| Manufacturer: | Elitegroup Computer Systems (ECS) |
| Product: | ECS P67H2-A Black Extreme Motherboard |
| Date: | Wed, Feb 16, 2011 - 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. Curious about real world scenarios, we decided to drop Furmark and ran 3DMark 11 on the performance preset and took the maximum power consumption during the first GPU test.
When it comes to power consumption numbers, the Intel P67 platforms are significantly lower than our Intel P55 system. The ECS P67H2-A Black Extreme does draw a bit more power than our other P67 boards; this can be attributed to the Lucid Hydra chip. Our idle power numbers for the ECS P67H2-A Black Extreme were sitting at 87 Watts, this is 15 Watts higher than the ASUS P8P67 motherboard. Comparing the same two boards, the ECS P67H2-A Black Extreme saw numbers as much as 20 Watts higher. These are the highest numbers we have seen on a Intel P67 system, though it is also the only board that has had the Lucid chip integrated into it.
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Page 1 - ECS P67H2-A Black Extreme Intel "Sandy Bridge" P67 Motherboard
Page 2 - ECS P67H2-A Black Extreme Motherboard Retail Packaging and Bundle Page 3 - ECS P67H2-A Black Extreme Motherboard Layout Page 4 - ECS P67H2-A Black Extreme Motherboard System BIOS Page 5 - Legit Reviews Test Bench Page 6 - SiSoftware Sandra 2011c Page 7 - ECS P67H2-A Black Extreme NVIDIA SLI Scaling Page 8 - ECS P67H2-A Black Extreme AMD CrossFireX Scaling Page 9 - ECS P67H2-A Black Extreme Lucid Hydra Core Performance Page 10 - Futuremark 3DMark 11 Page 11 - RightmarkAudio Analyzer Page 12 - Network Throughput Page 13 - SATA6 Performance Testing Page 14 - USB 3.0 Performance Testing Page 15 - System Power Consumption Page 16 - Overclocking the ECS P67H2-A Black Extreme Motherboard Page 17 - Final Thoughts and Conclusion |
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