Intel V8 Media Creation Platform - Dual Sockets - Dual Xeons

Name: Intel V8 Media Creation Platform - Dual Sockets - Dual Xeons - Page 12
Brand: Intel

by Marco Chiappetta — Wednesday, June 13, 2007, 10:00 AM EDT

We have one final data point we'd like to cover before bringing this article to a close. Our goal was to give you all an idea as to how much power each of the system configurations we tested used while idling and running under load.

Power Characteristics

Processors and Platforms

Please keep in mind that we were testing total system power consumption here at the outlet, not just the power being drawn by the processors alone. In this test, we're showing you a ramp-up of power from idle on the desktop to full CPU load. We tested with a combination of Cinebench R9.5 and SANDRA XI running on the CPU.

Our total system power consumption tests revealed an interesting trend. For these tests, all voltages were set to 'auto' in each system's respective BIOS and Cool'n'Quiet and EIST were enabled where applicable. Our testing showed the V8 system consuming much more power than anything else while idling at the Windows desktop; almost 50W more than QuadFX and over 100W more than the QX6800. With the processors operating under full load, however, the tables turned somewhat. Under load, the QuadFX rig - even though it had half the number of processor cores at work - consumed 24 more watts than V8.

Tags: Intel, ATI, media, Platform, Xeon, dual, SoC, socket, Dual Xeon, EA, PLA, K

Marco Chiappetta

Marco's interest in computing and technology dates all the way back to his early childhood. Even before being exposed to the Commodore P.E.T. and later the Commodore 64 in the early ‘80s, he was interested in electricity and electronics, and he still has the modded AFX cars and shop-worn soldering irons to prove it. Once he got his hands on his own Commodore 64, however, computing became Marco's passion. Throughout his academic and professional lives, Marco has worked with virtually every major platform from the TRS-80 and Amiga, to today's high end, multi-core servers. Over the years, he has worked in many fields related to technology and computing, including system design, assembly and sales, professional quality assurance testing, and technical writing. In addition to being the Managing Editor here at HotHardware for close to 15 years, Marco is also a freelance writer whose work has been published in a number of PC and technology related print publications and he is a regular fixture on HotHardware’s own Two and a Half Geeks webcast. - Contact: marco(at)hothardware(dot)com