Energy consumption …
The PC’s energy consumption varies depending on the hardware and load. We have listed a few interesting system configurations in the following table. When we measured the ASRock X670E Taichi Carrara’s power consumption, all onboard components were enabled and all BIOS settings were set to “Auto”. By using the Curve Optimizer or by selecting a corresponding performance preset, the maximum power consumption of our system could be reduced by 25W, while simultaneously increasing the computing speed by about 4%. The power consumption of the test PC with 2x Crucial 16GB DDR5-4800 memory, Crucial M.2 PCIe Gen4 SSD and Arctic Liquid Freezer II 280 A-RGB cooler and Lian Li 850W Gold power supply was as follows without overclocking depending on the load:
| Motherboard | CPU | GPU | Idle | Load |
| ASRock X670E Taichi Carrara | AMD Ryzen 5 7600X Socket AM5 |
AMD Radeon Graphics GPU | 59W | 163W |
| ASRock B550 Taichi Razer Edition | AMD Ryzen 7 3800X Socket AM4 |
ASRock Radeon RX 5700 Challenger D 8G OC graphics card | 56.5W | 318.4W |
| ASRock X570 Extreme4 | AMD Ryzen 7 3800X Socket AM4 |
MSI Radeon R9 280 graphics card | 55.6W | 273.4W |
| 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 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 X470 Gaming K4 | AMD Ryzen 5 2400G Socket AM4 |
MSI Radeon R9 280 graphics card | 43.1W | 257.8W |
| ASRock X470 Gaming K4 | AMD Ryzen 5 2400G Socket AM4 |
AMD Radeon Vega GPU | 22.7W | 88.3W |
| 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 Z390 Phantom Gaming X | Intel Core i9-9900K LGA1151 v2 |
MSI Radeon R9 280 graphics card | 53.2W | 286.3W |
| ASRock Z390 Phantom Gaming X | Intel Core i9-9900K LGA1151 v2 |
Intel UHD Graphics 630 GPU | 29.7W | 235.3W |
| 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 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 Taichi | Intel Core i9-7900X Skylake-X |
MSI Radeon R9 280 graphics card | 82.5W | 345.4W |
| ASRock X399 Taichi | AMD Threadripper 1950X Socket TR4 |
MSI Radeon R9 280 | 77.5W | 305.3W |
| ASRock X370 Taichi | AMD Ryzen 1600 Socket AM4 |
MSI Radeon R9 280 graphics card | 52.5W | 265.1W |
| ASRock X370 Taichi | AMD Ryzen 1800X Socket 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 Socket FM2+ |
Sapphire HD6870 | 56.3W | 233.5W |
| ASRock FM2A88X+ Killer | AMD A10-7850K Kaveri Socket FM2+ |
AMD Radeon R7 GPU | 30.2W | 118.8W |
| ASRock FM2A85X-ITX | AMD A10-5800K Trinity Socket FM2 |
Sapphire HD6870 | 52.9W | 221.0W |
| ASRock FM2A85X-ITX | AMD A10-5800K Trinity Socket 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 X670E Taichi Carrara Result and general impression …