That's incorrect.
Most of 'budget' & business Motherboards idle around 24-28 watts. However overclocking & gaming motherboards can go as high as 37 watts at idle.
A quad core Intel consumer level CPU idles around 4-6 watts.
So while estimating idle power consumption of a system, a...
Yeah, I was also disappointed to find out the lowest ldle power use of 17 watts in a modern socketed motherboard (correction: it was B97 instead of h97 chipset). It seems little high to me as well. I would eagerly await your experiences & suggestions regarding MoBo power usage.
Here is where I...
Thanks everyone for your replies.
I searches and MSI is the only company which makes 'ECO' line of motherboards. At present they have Motherboard based on H97 only but it does idles around 17 watts. I guess I have to be patient for them to release something for H170 chipset.
How about...
Here are few reasons; The old Motherboard is having issues with recognizing optical drives sometimes. My hard drives are slow and getting old but current MoBo does not support anything beyond SATA1. It does not have USB3, it only has 4 GB RRD3 RAM at this time and it consumes too much power for...
Hello,
I need a advice about selecting a motherboard for my new build. My first build was a 486 system and my last build was a Core Duo system. I was into PC gaming long time ago but now it is only a small percentage of use. I need a general purpose, high performance PC but now I want an energy...
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