GIGABYTE 890FXA-UD5 AMD 890FX Motherboard Review

System Power Consumption

Since power consumption is a big deal these days, we ran some simple power consumption tests on our test beds. The systems ran with the power supplies, case fans, video cards and hard drives. To measure idle usage, we ran the system at idle for one hour on the desktop with no screen saver and took the measurement. For load measurements, Prime95’s in-place large FFT’s was run on all cores to make sure each and every processor was at 100% load for maximum power consumption and heat. We also ran Furmark 1.8 at 1280×1024 to put a full load on the graphics card. All systems were tested using identical hardware.

Idle power consumption of the GIGABYTE 890FXA-UD5 was right on par with the other boards that we tested. Once the GIGABYTE 890FXA-UD5 was placed under load it was comparable to the other boards as well.