Energy consumption …
PC power consumption varies depending on hardware and PC load. We have listed a few interesting system configurations in the following table. The power consumption of the test PC with 2x Crucial 8GB DDR5-4800 memory, SSD and Cooler Master Silent Pro M 600W power supply was as follows without overclocking depending on the load:
| Motherboard | CPU | GPU | Idle | Load |
| ASRock Z790 Taichi | Intel Core i7-12700K LGA1700 |
ASRock Radeon RX 5700 Challenger D 8G OC graphics card | 60.3W | 304.1W |
| ASRock Z790 Taichi | Intel Core i7-12700K LGA1700 |
Intel UHD Graphics 630 GPU | 42.7W | 226.6W |
| ASRock Z790 Steel Legend WiFi | Intel Core i7-12700K LGA1700 |
ASRock Radeon RX 5700 Challenger D 8G OC graphics card | 47.6W | 310.2W |
| ASRock Z790 Steel Legend WiFi | Intel Core i7-12700K LGA1700 |
Intel UHD Graphics 630 GPU | 29.6W | 237.4W |
| ASRock Z590 Extreme | Intel Core i5-10500 LGA1200 |
ASRock Radeon RX 5700 Challenger D 8G OC graphics card | 44.6W | 243.8W |
| ASRock Z590 Extreme | Intel Core i5-10500 LGA1200 |
Intel UHD Graphics 630 GPU | 31.6W | 101.7W |
| ASRock H470 Steel Legend | Intel Core i5-10500 LGA1200 |
ASRock Radeon RX 5700 Challenger D 8G OC graphics card | 44.3W | 262.8W |
| ASRock H470 Steel Legend | Intel Core i5-10500 LGA1200 |
MSI Radeon R9 280 graphics card | 52.5W | 307.2W |
| ASRock H470 Steel Legend | Intel Core i5-10500 LGA1200 |
Intel UHD Graphics 630 GPU | 29.9W | 157.2W |
| ASRock B460 Steel Legend | Intel Core i5-10500 LGA1200 |
ASRock Radeon RX 5700 Challenger D 8G OC graphics card | 42.5W | 266.9W |
| ASRock B460 Steel Legend | Intel Core i5-10500 LGA1200 |
MSI Radeon R9 280 graphics card | 53.9W | 316.4W |
| ASRock B460 Steel Legend | Intel Core i5-10500 LGA1200 |
Intel UHD Graphics 630 GPU | 28.8W | 167.4W |
| ASRock B365 Pro4 | Intel Core i9-9900K LGA1151 v2 |
MSI Radeon R9 280 graphics card | 41.3W | 280.4W |
| ASRock B365 Pro4 | Intel Core i9-9900K LGA1151 v2 |
Intel UHD Graphics 630 GPU | 23.1W | 193.1W |
| ASRock Z390 Extreme4 | Intel Core i7-8700K LGA1151 v2 |
MSI Radeon R9 280 | 46.3W | 272.8W |
| ASRock Z390 Extreme4 | Intel Core i7-8700K LGA1151 v2 |
Intel UHD Graphics 630 GPU | 29.3W | 119.9W |
| ASRock H370 Performance | Intel Core i7-8700K LGA1151 v2 |
MSI Radeon R9 280 graphics card | 49.7W | 284.1W |
| ASRock H370 Performance | Intel Core i7-8700K LGA1151 v2 |
Intel UHD Graphics 630 GPU | 29.1W | 126.0W |
| ASRock Z270 Killer SLI | Intel Core i5-7600K Kaby Lake LGA1151 |
MSI Radeon R9 280 | 45.7W | 262.9W |
| ASRock Z270 Killer SLI | Intel Core i5-7600K Kaby Lake LGA1151 |
Intel HD Graphics 630 GPU | 34.8W | 117.4W |
| ASRock X299 Creator | Intel Core i9-10900X Cascade Lake-X LGA 2066 |
ASRock Radeon RX 5700 Challenger D 8G OC graphics card | 72.1W | 373.2W |
| ASRock X299 Creator | Intel Core i9-7900X Skylake-X LGA 2066 |
ASRock Radeon RX 5700 Challenger D 8G OC graphics card | 79.2W | 360.7W |
| ASRock X299 Creator | Intel Core i9-10900X Cascade Lake-X LGA 2066 |
MSI Radeon R9 280 graphics card | 78.4W | 353.6W |
| ASRock X299 Creator | Intel Core i9-7900X Skylake-X LGA 2066 |
MSI Radeon R9 280 graphics card | 87.2W | 371.1W |
| ASRock X299 Taichi | Intel Core i9-7900X Skylake-X LGA 2066 |
MSI Radeon R9 280 graphics card | 82.5W | 345.4W |
| ASRock X399 Taichi | AMD Threadripper 1950X Sockel TR4 |
MSI Radeon R9 280 | 77.5W | 305.3W |
| ASRock X370 Taichi | AMD Ryzen 1600 Sockel AM4 |
MSI Radeon R9 280 graphics card | 52.5W | 265.1W |
| ASRock X370 Taichi | AMD Ryzen 1800X Sockel AM4 |
MSI Radeon R9 280 graphics card | 55.1W | 284.8W |
| ASRock Z170 Extreme6 | Intel Core i5-6600K Skylake LGA1151 |
MSI Radeon R9 280 | 50.5W | 259.1W |
| ASRock Z170 Extreme6 | Intel Core i5-6600K Skylake LGA1151 |
Intel HD Graphics 530 GPU | 36.0W | 70.7W |
| ASRock X99 Extreme6 | Intel Core i7-5930K LGA 2011-3 |
MSI Radeon R9 280 | 60.5W | 290.4W |
| ASRock Z97 Extreme6 | Intel Core i5-4670K LGA1151 |
MSI Radeon R9 280 | 53.1W | 270.7W |
| ASRock Z97 Extreme6 | Intel Core i5-4670K LGA1151 |
Sapphire HD6870 | 55.8W | 219.5W |
| ASRock Z97 Extreme6 | Intel Core i5-4670K LGA1151 |
Intel HD Graphics 4600 GPU | 33.5W | 94.5W |
| ASRock FM2A88X+ Killer | AMD A10-7850K Kaveri Sockel FM2+ |
Sapphire HD6870 | 56.3W | 233.5W |
| ASRock FM2A88X+ Killer | AMD A10-7850K Kaveri Sockel FM2+ |
AMD Radeon R7 GPU | 30.2W | 118.8W |
| ASRock FM2A85X-ITX | AMD A10-5800K Trinity Sockel FM2 |
Sapphire HD6870 | 52.9W | 221.0W |
| ASRock FM2A85X-ITX | AMD A10-5800K Trinity Sockel FM2 |
AMD Radeon HD7660D GPU | 29.4W | 120.4W |
How high the power costs of the PC are with or without overclocking depending on the performance and running time can be calculated with our interactive PC power cost calculator:
Interactive power consumption Calculator
ASRock Z790 Taichi Result and general impression …