Maingear Vybe Review: Dual GTX 1070s And Kaby Lake Cranked To 5GHz
Maingear Vybe: Power Consumption & Noise
Before bringing this article to a close, we'd like to cover a couple of final data points -- namely, power consumption and noise. Throughout all of our benchmarking and testing, we monitored acoustics and tracked how much power our test system was consuming using a power meter.
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Our goal was to give you an idea of how much power each configuration used while idling and also while under a heavy workload. Please keep in mind that we were testing total system power consumption at the outlet.
The Vybe peaked at 519W, which means there is plenty of headroom left in the 860W power supply. Equally impressive is its idle power usage of just 68W, one of the lowest usages of the bunch.
The Vybe peaked at 519W, which means there is plenty of headroom left in the 860W power supply. Equally impressive is its idle power usage of just 68W, one of the lowest usages of the bunch.
Noise
No, this is not the version of FurMark we used to test the Vybe's thermal and noise attributes
A relatively compact case with an overclocked processor and dual graphics cards can be a recipe for a noisy system, but that wasn't the case here. The Vybe is a quiet system, even when gaming. It's only when fully stressing the CPU and both GPUs that all the fans start to make some noise, but even then it's not what we would consider loud.