It's interesting to note the power consumption across all motherboards. Although they are all using the P67 chipset, energy results can fluctuate between manufacturers due to the features and specifications that are integrated. First of all, for the idle tests the system is cold booted into Windows and no additional applications are executed - the watts are noted on the external energy monitor we use and then the system is loaded with 3DMark 11 - watts are again monitored for the duration of the test and the highest rated wattage result is then noted down. Below are the results of this energy test.
Being a cut-down of the other candidates I expected the power consumption to reflect this but I was quite surprised to find that the D3 isn’t the most energy efficient of the motherboards we have tested.
