ASRock AB350 Gaming K4 AMD AM4 Motherboard Review

Energy consumption …

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The power consumption will vary depending upon the hardware and upon the PC load. The current consumption of the test PC with AMD Ryzen CPU, 4x 4GB DDR4-2400 memory, hard disk drive and Cooler Master Silent Pro M 600W test PSU without overclocking depending upon load:
– With MSI Radeon R9 280 video card the Ryzen 1600 PC power consumption was between 52.3W idle and 266.4W load.
– With MSI Radeon R9 280 video card the Ryzen 1800X PC power consumption was between 68.1W idle and 242.8W load.

An ASRock Z270 Killer SLI Intel Z270 motherboard with an Intel Core i5-7600K LGA1151 CPU had the following power consumption:
– With MSI Radeon R9 280 graphics card the entire power consumption was 45.7W idle and full load 262.9W.
– With integrated Intel HD Graphics GPU 530 the total consumption was 34.8W idle and full load 117.4W.

An ASRock Z170 Extreme6 Intel Z170 motherboard with an Intel Core i5-6600K LGA1151 CPU had the following power consumption:
– With MSI Radeon R9 280 graphics card the entire power consumption was 50.5W idle and full load 259.1W.
– With integrated Intel HD Graphics GPU 530 the total consumption was 36.0W idle and 70.7 Watt at full load.

An ASRock X99 Extreme6 motherboard with an Intel Core i7-5930K LGA1151 CPU and 4x 4GB DDR4 had the following power consumption:
– With MSI Radeon R9 280 between 60.5W idle and 290.4W load.

An ASRock Z97 Extreme6 Intel Z97 motherboard with an Intel Core i5-4670K CPU had the following power consumption:
– With MSI Radeon R9 280 between 53.1W idle and 270.7W load.
– With Sapphire HD6870 graphics card the entire power consumption was 55.8W idle and 219.5W full load.
– With integrated Intel HD Graphics 4600 GPU the total consumption was 33.5W idle and 94.5 Watt full load.

An ASRock Fatal1ty FM2A88X+ Killer AMD Socket FM2+ motherboard with an AMD A10-7850K Kaveri APU had the following PC energy consumption:
– With Sapphire HD6870 between 56.3W idle and 233.5 Watt full load.
– With internal AMD Radeon R7 GPU between 30.2W idle and 118.8 Watt full load.

An ASRock FM2A85X-ITX AMD Socket FM2 motherboard with an AMD A10-5800K Trinity APU had the following power consumption:
– With Sapphire HD6870 graphics card from 52.9W to 221.0 Watt.
– With internal AMD Radeon HD7660D GPU 29.4W idle and 120.4 Watt full load.

The power consumption costs of your PC with or without overclocking according to performance and runtime, can be calculated with our interactive PC power consumption calculator.

ASRock Fatal1ty AB350 Gaming K4 Result and general impression …