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Extreme X58 Motherboards - All Hail the Ultimates!

By Vincent Chang - 16 Jul 2010

Temperature & Power Consumption

Temperature

The Gigabyte UD9 with its rather large heatsink also happened to be our warmest board, with almost 60 degrees Celsius recorded. The MSI board wasn't too far behind though. Meanwhile, the EVGA and ASUS boards both had relatively cool temperatures; for the EVGA, the extra fixed radiator probably helped (we did not install the Hybrid Silent Pipe on the Gigabyte, which should have a similar effect for the Gigabyte's chipset temperature) to keep it below 50 degrees.

 

Power Consumption

While we were tempted to explain the power consumption figures on the fact that two of the boards are larger than the usual ATX form factor, the ATX-sized ASUS too had rather high numbers. The MSI emerged as the most impressive here, with significantly lower idle and peak power, while the other three were mostly quite similar in power draw.

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