Legit Motherboard Reviews
Sapphire Pure Black X58 Motherboard Review
| Manufacturer: | Sapphire |
| Product: | Sapphire Pure Black X58 |
| Date: | Fri, Apr 01, 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 were 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.
Without a doubt, Intel has made leaps and bounds in power consumption with the new Intel 6 series systems. When the Sapphire Pure Black X58 system is sitting idle, it is pulling 119 Watts at the wall. This is 80% more power consumption than the BIOSTAR TP67XE which uses only 66 Watts at idle. When we fire up Prime 95 the Intel Core i7 950 jumps the Sapphire Pure Black X58 up to 213 Watts; this is 52% more power than the lowest Intel P67 system. Running the first GPU test in FutureMark 3DMark 11 the gap continues to close, though we are still consuming 50 Watts more than our lowest system board.
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Page 1 - SAPPHIRE PURE Black X58 LGA 1366 Mainboard
Page 2 - The Sapphire Pure Black X58 Motherboard Retail Packaging and Bundle Page 3 - Sapphire Pure Black X58 Motherboard Layout Page 4 - Sapphire Pure Black X58 System BIOS Page 5 - The Legit Reviews Test System Page 6 - SiSoft Sandra 2011c Memory Bandwidth Page 7 - Sapphire Pure Black X58 AMD CrossFireX Scaling Page 8 - Futuremark 3DMark 11 Synthetic Benchmark Page 9 - Rightmark Audio Analyzer Page 10 - Sapphire Pure Black X58 Network Throughput Page 11 - SATA6 Performance Testing Page 12 - USB 3.0 Performance Testing Page 13 - System Power Consumption Page 14 - The Sapphire Pure Black X58 - Overclocking Page 15 - Final Thoughts and Conclusion |
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