HIS HD 5850 iCooler V Turbo Review

To test our power draw we will be using the P3 Kill A Watt.  This handy little utility will show tell us how much power we are pulling directly from the wall socket. The results we will show are based total system power draw as apposed to being able to narrow it down specifically to our graphics card.  It will however provide useful information pertaining to what sort of power usage to expect if you are using a comparable system at home. The results will be done with our monitor powered from a seperate socket so we get just the system draw as our results.

The first image below shows that our system without a monitor is using 143 watts of power when it is in an idle state. Not bad at all for an overclocked six core AMD CPU and the HIS 5850 as our graphics card.

When we fire up Crysis our system is now using 253 watts of total power during our game testing.

The final image was taken with Furmark running. During this test our total system power usage topped out at 284 watts which again very respectable for a system like the one we used for our testing.

Just to make sure there is no confusion, these numbers are not the power draw of the HIS 5850 we are testing, the values are the total amount of power the full system (minus monitor) is consuming.

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