10 - CPU Power Consumption
Power consumption
Alright then, let's monitor something besides performance... power consumption.
We'll now show you some tests we have done on overall power consumption of the PC, and the overall power consumption is just really impressive in several IDLE and PEAK states.
Wowzers, does overclocking hurt the wattage. So in combo with a fully build system with the Radeon HD 3870 active, we idle at 170 Watt, that's quite a lot actually.
Once we stress the 4 CPU cores we peak at 246 Watt, when we start to play a game we peak at 269 Watt.
Once we overclock the processor towards 3 GHz we see an idle power consumption of 215 Watt, 321 Watt when we stress the 4 CPU cores, and measured while playing some games we peak towards 334 Watt.
