Gigabyte Z87-D3HP Motherboard Review

We measured the power consumption with the system resting at the Windows 7 desktop, representing idle values.

The power consumption of our entire test system is measured at the wall while loading only the CPU using Prime95's Small FFTs setting. The rest of the system's components were operating in their idle states, hence the increased power consumption values (in comparison to the idle figures) are largely related to the load on the CPU and motherboard power delivery components.

Thanks to its minimalistic design and lack of an array of add-on controllers, Gigabyte's Z87-D3HP motherboard is able to deliver remarkably-low power consumption figures when idling.

Increasing the load and applying an overclock clearly boosts the rate at which power is consumed, but these levels are still around 20 Watts lower than the controller-heavy ASRock Z87 Extreme9/ac and MSI Z87 XPower motherboards.

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