Energy consumption …
PC energy consumption varies depending on hardware and PC load. We have listed some interesting system configurations in the following table. The power consumption of the test PC with 2x Crucial 4GB DDR4-2400 memory, SSD and Cooler Master Silent Pro M 600W power supply was without overclocking depending on the load at the following consumption values:
| Motherboard | CPU | GPU | Idle | Load |
| ASRock Z490 Steel Legend | Intel Core i5-10500 LGA1200 |
ASRock Radeon RX 5700 Challenger D 8G OC graphics card | 41.2W | 317.4W |
| ASRock Z490 Steel Legend | Intel Core i5-10500 LGA1200 |
MSI Radeon R9 280 graphics card | 51.5W | 322.1W |
| ASRock Z490 Steel Legend | Intel Core i5-10500 LGA1200 |
Intel UHD Graphics 630 GPU | 29.2W | 147.0W |
| 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 |
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 v2 |
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 Taichi | Intel Core i9-7900X Skylake-X |
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 Sockel AM4 | 52.5W | 265.1W |
| ASRock X370 Taichi | AMD Ryzen 1800X Sockel AM4 |
MSI Radeon R9 280 Sockel AM4 | 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 Z490 Steel Legend Result and general impression …