Motherboard Asrock N3700 ITX

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The power consumption of the CPU N3700 mentions that the max TPD is 6W. Therefore i bought this Asrock and i measured the power consumtion, it is between 27W and 35W.
Yes i have well unplugged all other disk, usb... the power ATX 24-pin is plugged on the motherboard and the small "power sw" to start my PC, when i start i see that the power consumption is too high.
What could be the reason ?

Also i noticed that when i shutdown the PC(only ATX 24 pin cable plugged) it is consuming 3-4watt, whereas i expected at least 0-1W.

The reason i bought this motherboad is due to its CPU N3700 soldered on the motherbard for this power consumption.
 
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The cpu actually uses less then 6w most of the time. The other things you need to consider is the other motherbd chips. They dont work on free energy. :) Audio, Network, Chipset, Graphics support... all use up energy too. Nothing works at 100% efficiency. Every single little thing on the board uses a bit of energy, even the traces.
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The cpu actually uses less then 6w most of the time. The other things you need to consider is the other motherbd chips. They dont work on free energy. :) Audio, Network, Chipset, Graphics support... all use up energy too. Nothing works at 100% efficiency. Every single little thing on the board uses a bit of energy, even the traces.
 
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Hi popatim,

I agree with you, indeed, i already took into account other components on the motherboard but, i compared this Asrock N3700 with 2 others motherboards :
- one is the HP ELITE 8000 SFF with LGA 755 socket having the CPU E8400 with 65 watts...finally it consumes between
'25 and 35 watts' with 2 HDD of 3.5" and 1 SSD 2.5" running.
- second is a Asus p8h61 evo with i7 2600k with 2 HHD 3.5" and 1 SSD 2.5" running between 45watt and 75 watts.


I could say that my preference is for the HP 8000 SFF due to the power consumption and the performance.
Asrock Pentium N3700(Windows 8.1) is very slow even it is a quad core compared to the HP ELITE 8000 with a core 2 duo(Windows 7 Pro)

Lastly, Asrock N3700 does not accept Windows 7 Pro , but Windows 8.1 due to the components on the motherboard.

PS : If you want to use Windows 7 Pro and run (like me) Vmware server, i DO NOT recommend this Asrock.

 
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