Asus Maximus VII Ranger & Hero 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.

With a heavy set of features on each of the ROG motherboards, idle power consumption numbers are not impressive. When loaded though, the Maximus VII boards manage to show their relative efficiency at stock CPU speeds.

Heavy voltage tweaking impacts overclocked power consumption numbers, yet only ASRock's Z97 Extreme6 is able to show consistently lower energy usage.

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