Thread: GA-EP45-DSviP

It seems motherboard vendors are all accomplishing their bit to try and barrier the bulk of ability their boards consume. This is abnormally pertinent with models, such as the GA-EP45-DS4P, which access at the edges with added ports than anytime for alien devices, adamantine drives and Gigabit arrangement connections. This agency any extenuative is welcome.


The GA-EP45-DS4P supports a excess of ports, as able-bodied as the fastest Intel CPUs on the bazaar and DDR2 memory, and it additionally comes able with an energy-saving ability that aims to dynamically abate all-embracing ability consumption.


This energy-saving ability is accepted as DES — Activating Energy Saver — and its interface can be run through Windows. It's not an automated utility, and there are alone three levels of CPU voltage acclimation that can be



selected. CPU throttling is activating and automatic. None of the adjustable voltage levels afflicted the achievement of the board, but we did see slight reductions in aiguille ability consumption.


The lath recorded identical achievement at all CPU voltage levels in the Blender 3D tests, in which all four cores of the CPU are acclimated to cede a 3-D scene. Without DES running, it completed this assignment in 32sec, and this is absolutely what we were assured from our analysis configuration: an Intel Core 2 Extreme QX6850 CPU, 2GB of DDR2 RAM, a 750GB adamantine drive and an ATI Radeon HD 2600Pro cartoon card.


Throughout the Blender 3D try, our computers entire peak power usage with DES disabled was 173W. When we enabled DES at its most vigorous step of central processing unit voltage reduction, the same test finished in 33sec and power consumption peaked at 164W.


This interprets into a power storing of around 6 per cent. However, when we equate the board's power consumption to the ASUS , it turns out that the GA-EP45-DS4P takes less power while supplying maximum function.