Going Green? Which motherboard company is more efficient, ASUS or Gigabyte?

By jason July 11, 2008

Test Setup

Intel Test Platform
Component	Brand/Model	Live Pricing
Processor	Intel QX6850	Click Here
Motherboard	ASUS P5E3 Premium Gigabyte X48-DS5	Click Here Click Here
Video Card	Albatron GeForce 9600GT	Click Here
Memory	Corsair C6400C4 2 GB kit Kingston HyperX PC3-13000	Click Here Click Here
Hard Drive	Western Digital Raptor 150GB	Click Here
Cooling	Corsair Nautilus	Click Here
Power Supply	PC Power & Cooling 750	Click Here
Operating System	Windows Vista Ultimate 64Bit	Click Here

All tests were run using a clean install of Windows Vista Ultimate 64 Bit. For our stock speed tests, we ran everything at default timings for the CPU. Our stock speed testing on our DDR2 boards used Corsair DDR2 C6400C4 2 GB kit at 2.0 vDimm at DDR2 800, and timings of 4-4-4-12 and 1T if available. Our DDR3 boards that used DDR3 were run using a 2GB kit of Kingston PC3-13000 memory running at timings of 7-7-7-20 and 1T at 2.0v.

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