Intel i7 3960X EE / Asus P9X79 Deluxe / 32GB Corsair Vengeance (1600mhz) Review

Power consumption is a hot topic of conversation in recent months as people are paying more attention to their electricity bills and overall energy footprint.

We used a calibrated meter to measure the power at the wall.

Firstly we analysed the power drain when all systems were at reference clock speeds (Core i7 3960X EE @ 3.3ghz, Core i5 2500k @ 3.3ghz, Core i7 2600k @ 3.4ghz, Core i7 2700k @ 3.5ghz and FX 8150 @ 3.6ghz).

All systems were loaded with Cinebench R11.5 64 bit.

Next we overclocked the processors, increasing voltage settings.

Considering the performance, the overclocked load results are surprisingly good, only consuming 36 watts more than the AMD FX 8150, even though its running 200mhz faster.

Above, we recorded power at the socket when running the last test in 3DMark 11 – stressing both CPU (3960X EE @ 4.8ghz) and GPU (HD6990 – 880 mhz).

We used an Enermax Platimax 1200W for all our reviews today, we highly recommend it.

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