Benchmark: Power Consumption

Idle power consumption is identical between AMD's reference design and Gigabyte's overclocked model, but the latter eats through more juice under load. Powering a total of three fans might have something to do with it.
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                                by Parm Mann
                                
                                    on 16 January 2012, 09:00 
                                    
                                
                                
                                
                                
                                
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Idle power consumption is identical between AMD's reference design and Gigabyte's overclocked model, but the latter eats through more juice under load. Powering a total of three fans might have something to do with it.
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