Gigabyte Z97X-SOC Force 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 (at the wall) is measured while loading only the CPU using Prime95′s in-place large 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.

Even when overclocked, Gigabyte's Z97X-SOC Force motherboard is able to clock down the 4790K processor to conserve power.

Load voltage pushes up to 1.248V at MCT clocks, forcing a power consumption level of 187W. Our overclocked settings force a maximum CPU VCore of 1.32V, which results in a 216W power consumption.

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