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CyberPowerPC ZEUS Thunder 2500 SE Review

Manufacturer: CyberPower PC
Product: Zeus Thunder 2500 SE
Date: Mon, Jul 23, 2012 - 12:00 PM
Written By: Nathan Kirsch -
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Power Consumption

CyberPowerPC Zeus 2500 SE Inside

Energy efficiency is a big deal these days, so we fired up the system and plugged it into a Kill-A-Watt power meter. For idle numbers, we allowed the system to idle on the desktop for 15 minutes and took the reading. For load numbers we measured the peak wattage used by the system while running a variety of utilities.

CyberPower Zeus Thunder 2500 SE Power Consumption

The CyberPowerPC Zeus Thunder 2500 SE had very decent power consumption numbers considering that it was overclocked up to 4.7GHz. The system idled at 122 Watts and peaked at 380 Watts when both the Intel Core i7-3770K processor and  EVGA GeForce GTX 680 Superclocked video card were both at 100% load with Prime 95 and Furmark running. In gaming we saw on average 295 Watts of power draw with game titles like Battlefield 3 and Deus Ex. When encoding videos we saw right around 205 Watts on average.

Next Page - Final Thoughts and Conclusions


Review Index
Page 1 - The Zeus Thunder 2500 SE
Page 2 - Unboxing
Page 3 - External Impressions
Page 4 - Internal Impressions
Page 5 - First Boot & Windows Experience Index
Page 6 - CPU-Z and GPU-Z Screenshots
Page 7 - Sandra 2012 SP4 & CrystalDiskMark 3.0.1c
Page 8 - PCMark 7 & 3DMark 11
Page 9 - x264 HD Encoding & WPrime
Page 10 - Temperature & Sound Testing
Page 11 - Power Consumption
Page 12 - Final Thoughts and Conclusions