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GIGABYTE GA-990FXA-UD7 Motherboard Review
| Manufacturer: | Gigabyte |
| Product: | GIGABYTE 990FXA-UD7 |
| Date: | Thu, Nov 10, 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.
Benchmark Results: We were a little bit shocked at the power consumption numbers of the GIGABYTE 990FXA-UD7 today. When the system was sitting idle, the power consumption was 11 Watts lower than the ASUS Crosshair V Formula. When we started to put a load on the AMD FX-8150 and the XFX Radeon HD 6950 we had to double check our numbers. Strictly loading up the AMD FX-8150 the total system power draw was 241 Watts at the wall, this is 15 Watts more than the ASUS Crosshair V Formula. When we fired up FutureMark 3DMark 11 our power consumption hit a peak of 305 Watts at the wall, this is 23 Watts more than we saw on the Crosshair V Formula.
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Page 1 - GIGABYTE 990FXA-UD7 Motherboard
Page 2 - GIGABYTE 990FXA-UD7 Retail Packaging Page 3 - GIGABYTE 990FXA-UD7 Motherboard Layout Page 4 - The Legit Reviews Test System Page 5 - SiSoftware Sandra 2011 SP5 Memory Bandwidth Page 6 - Futuremark 3DMark11 Synthetic Gaming Benchmark Page 7 - Metro 2033 Performance Benchmark Page 8 - S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat DirectX 11 Benchmark Page 9 - Aliens Vs. Predator DirectX 11 Benchmark Page 10 - Rightmark Audio Analyzer Page 11 - GIGABYTE 990FXA-UD7 SATA III 6Gbps Performance Page 12 - GIGABYTE 990FXA-UD7 SuperSpeed USB 3.0 Performance Page 13 - System Power Consumption Page 14 - Overclocking with the GIGABYTE 990FXA-UD7 Page 15 - Final Thoughts and Conclusion |
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