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ASUS Intel Z68 ROG Maximus IV Motherboard Reviews
| Manufacturer: | ASUS |
| Product: | ASUS Republic of Gamers Intel Z68 Motherboards |
| Date: | Wed, Sep 07, 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 identical power supplies, Solid-Sate Drives, Memory kits and motherboards from the same company. 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 other test scenarios, we decided to 3DMark Vantage the performance preset and took the maximum power consumption during the first GPU test.
Benchmark Results: It's not exactly a surprise that the ASUS Maximus IV Extreme-Z drew more power than the Maximus IV Gene-Z. After all the Maximus IV Extreme-Z is an eATX motherboard, while the Maximus IV Gene-Z is a micro-ATX motherboard. At idle the Maximus IV Extreme-Z pulled 100 Watts at the wall, while the Gene-Z pulled only 80 Watts. Loading up the CPU, the Extreme-Z pulled 170 Watts versus the 148 Watts of the Gene-Z. The largest difference between the boards is under 3DMark 11. The Extreme-Z pulled 232 Watts while the Gene-Z pulled 200 Watts.
Next Page - Overclocking the ASUS Maximus IV Extreme-Z and the Maximus IV Gene-Z
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Page 1 - The ASUS Maximus IV Extreme-Z and Gene-Z Intel Z68 Motherboards
Page 2 - ASUS Republic of Gamers Intel Z68 Motherboard Retail Packaging Page 3 - ASUS Republic of Gamers Intel Z68 Motherboard Layouts Page 4 - ASUS Rebublic of Gamers UEFI System BIOS Page 5 - The Legit Reviews Test System Page 6 - SiSoftware Sandra 2011 SP4 Memory Bandwidth Page 7 - FutureMark 3DMark 11 Page 8 - S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat Page 9 - Metro 2033 Performance Benchmark Page 10 - Aliens Vs. Predator Benchmark v1.03 Page 11 - SATA 6Gbps Performance Testing Page 12 - Super Speed USB 3.0 Performance Testing Page 13 - Rightmark Audio Analyzer Page 14 - System Power Consumption Page 15 - Overclocking the ASUS Maximus IV Extreme-Z and the Maximus IV Gene-Z Page 16 - Final Thoughts and Conclusion |
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