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How much power does your system draw

full load about 950 watt

using overclocked i7 3770k 4.6 ghz
16 gb memory 3000 mhz
4 hard drives 3x ssd.
16 fans 1 pump.
gigabyte sniper 3.
amd 295x2 overclocked.
peak about 950 watt from the wall using on screen display plug monitor.
psu is a 1250 watt enermax.
 
The most I ever got from my previous FX8350 at the wall was 360W that was running prime on eight workers at 4.5GHz and a single HD7870 running Heaven concurrently.

I have not tried with the FX9590 at stock but as it runs a bit less vcore it should be about the same.
 
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Seemed less than before but then I remembered I pulled a faulty PCI-E to PCI bridge adapter so 25W less than normal. Goes to about 200-220W when CPU is under full load on all cores. Not sure when playing a game, never bothered to check but can't be that much more, it's only an old 5850.
 
My power meter shows 345Watt during gaming and 97 during desktop use.

3770k oc 4.7 1.15v h100i
980ti stock volts 1500/2000 h55
z77 sabertooth
2 SSDs, 1 HD
Fan controller
Asus stx
Keyboard, G15, mouse, headphone
dvd drive
8gb samsung green ram 1800 oc
fans, can't be bothered counting how many I have but about 9
860Watt Seasonic Plat PSU
 
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I have a power meter connected to my PSU directly from the wall.

I7 [email protected] 1.3V
Asus Rampage IV Extreme
16Gb DDR3 1600
3x SSDs, 2x HDD and 1x Bluray
3x AMD HD 7950 1000/1250 1.1V (ULPS is disabled)
1x DDC 18W pump + 1x DDC 10W pump
14x 120mm fans + 2x 60mm fans (2 fan controllers/monitors)

Idle/Browsing: 233W
Gaming between 800W and 900W
 
[email protected] 1.38v
290x Crossfire 1200mhz 1.35v
16g 2400mhz ram at 1.65v
2xSSD
20x120mm and 2x140mm fans
2xd5 pump
Used the meter on the PSU only.

90-100w Idle
120-130w Browsing/streaming
200-250w light gaming, wow d3 etc.
550-600w average in gtav with vsync on
760w with vsync off

I saw an occasional spike to around 790w so i guess thats when some background tasks are doing stuff causing more cpu usage.
 
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Asrock 990fx extreme 9 / amd 9590fx 5ghz / 32gb corsair vengeance 1600mhz / 250gb Samsung eve 850 ssd / sapphire r9 390 nitro 8gb / corsair rm850i / corsair h110i GTX AIO

idle 100-115 watts
gaming at ultra with gpu overclocked to 1180 mghz 1700mhz memory with 7.5% power increase
500 watts
gpu running at 58c / idle 40c
cpu 50c / idle 26c
rad 37c / idle 27c
VRM 34c / idle 28c
 
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32Gb ram 2666@3000Mhz
3x R9 290 1000/1375
3 SSDs
3 HDDs
2 pumps
2 fan controllers
20 fans (17x 120mm, 1x140mm and 2x60mm)

From the wall it draws 150W on idle, 750W gaming and 950W on benchmarks with higher clocks
Before I had a 3970X and it was around 30W more all around
 
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You use speedfan Drang? If ya turn your fans off at idle you might be able to knock a few watts off that.
 
Going by my power monitor with the spec in my siggy:-

Idle/browsing the internet 69w.
Normal gaming anywhere between 112-345w.
Anno 2070 422w.
Furmark and Linx both together 452w.
 
andybird123 said:
Remember the power meter tells you what its drawing at the wall, the PSU rating is on the output side so gives you about an extra 10-20% to play with depending on the efficiency curve

If its drawing just over 800 at the wall then its probably around 700-730 at the PSU side
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I guess thats the heat generated by the PSU and the running of its fan. Before you've even got power to your motherboard your paying for a 100w of power lol.
 
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