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ASRock Z77E-ITX Mini ITX Motherboard Review
| Manufacturer: | ASRock |
| Product: | ASRock Z77E-ITX |
| Date: | Tue, Aug 28, 2012 - 12:00 AM |
| Written By: | Dan Stoltz - |
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ASRock Z77E-ITX 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: While all of our systems are sitting idle, they all draw a comparable amount of power. The ASRock Z77E-ITX was pulling 61 Watts at the wall, while others were pulling 60-61 Watts as well. Once we started putting a load on the system the ASRock Z77E-ITX performance started to pull ahead. Under a CPU load with the AIDA64 system stability test the ASRock Z77E-ITX was pulling only 121 Watts. While gaming in Battlefield 3 the entire system was pulling only 229 Watts. Each of these performances was 6 Watts lower than the next board.
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Page 1 - ASRock Z77E-ITX SFF Intel Z77 Motherboard
Page 2 - ASRock Z77E-ITX mITX Motherboard Retail Packaging Page 3 - ASRock Z77E-ITX mITX Motherboard Layout Page 4 - The Legit Reviews Test System Page 5 - SiSoftware Sandra 2012 Sp4c Memory Bandwidth Page 6 - Futuremark 3DMark 11 DirectX 11 Gaming Benchmark Page 7 - Battlefield 3 Page 8 - Intel Z77 SATA III 6Gbps Performance Testing Page 9 - Intel Z77 SuperSpeed USB 3.0 Performance Testing Page 10 - Rightmark Audio Analyzer Performance Page 11 - ASRock Z77E-ITX System Power Consumption Page 12 - ASRock XFast 555 Page 13 - ASRock Z77E-ITX Overclocking Page 14 - Final Thoughts and Conclusion |
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