Power consumption is surprisingly low given the performance on offer, the efficiency of Intel's Skylake CPU architecture and Nvidia's Maxwell GPU architecture helps the Asteroid achieve these results. You might argue that the 1000W PSU is “totally overkill” for this system but in practice the extra capacity headroom for the PSU means the unit's fan rarely turns on which helps keep things nice and quiet.
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