X58 Motherboards: Heat and Power?

I'm in the market for an X58 Motherboard, and after a bunch of research, can't find a whole lot of information on Mobo power usage and heat output.

The numbers from Tom's x58 articles for heat and wattage are pretty much all I've found, and they have some strange results, and some strikingly large differences between models with otherwise identical parts. For example, The P6T SE runs a full 10C cooler than the P6T, but uses close to the same amount of power. 10C is a huge difference, certainly way more than the difference in performance.

so my questions are:

1. Does anyone have any more heat/power information for X58 motherboards? (especially Workstation models)

2. With regards to workstation branded motherboards, are they generally cooler and more energy efficient / more stable? I've been looking at the P6T WS Pro but there is virtually NO information about it.

3. Anyone own the Foxconn Renaissance? It's on sale at Newegg for 199.


here are the numbers from Tom's articles:

Power Idle
153 … MSI X58 Platinum SLI
154 … Foxconn FlamingBlade
154 … Biostar Tpower X58
155 … ASRock X58 SuperComputer
156 … Jetway BI-600
158 … Foxconn Renaissance
158 … DFI Lanparty UT X58-T3eH8
161 … ECS X58B-A
163 … MSI X58 Pro-E
166 … Foxconn Blood Rage
167 … Asus P6T SE
167 … ASRock X58 Extreme
168 … MSI Eclipse SLI
172 … EVGA X58 3X SLI
172 … EVGA X58 3X SLI
173 … DFI Lanparty DK X58-T3eH6
175 … Asus P6T
176 … Gigabyte X58 Extreme
179 … Gigabyte EX58-UD3R
182 … Asus Rampage II Extreme


Power Load
227 … Jetway BI-600
256 … ECS X58B-A
261 … MSI X58 Platinum SLI
262 … Foxconn Renaissance
263 … Foxconn FlamingBlade
270 … ASRock X58 SuperComputer
273 … DFI Lanparty DK X58-T3eH6
274 … MSI X58 Pro-E
275 … EVGA X58 3X SLI
275 … EVGA X58 3X SLI
276 … MSI Eclipse SLI
279 … Biostar Tpower X58
279 … DFI Lanparty UT X58-T3eH8
281 … ASRock X58 Extreme
285 … Asus P6T SE
285 … Gigabyte EX58-UD3R
285 … Foxconn Blood Rage
286 … Gigabyte X58 Extreme
286 … Asus Rampage II Extreme
298 … Asus P6T


Heat Load
3 … Gigabyte EX58-UD3R
4.5 … Asus P6T SE
6.2 … Jetway BI-600
6.2 … MSI X58 Pro-E
7.3 … Asus Rampage II Extreme
7.5 … Gigabyte X58 Extreme
7.7 … Foxconn Renaissance
8.2 … Foxconn FlamingBlade
8.5 … MSI X58 Platinum SLI
8.7 … ASRock X58 SuperComputer
10.1 … DFI Lanparty DK X58-T3eH6
10.6 … MSI Eclipse SLI
11.8 … Foxconn Blood Rage
11.9 … Biostar Tpower X58
12 … EVGA X58 3X SLI
12 … EVGA X58 3X SLI
12.9 … ECS X58B-A
14.1 … ASRock X58 Extreme
14.5 … Asus P6T
20.2 … DFI Lanparty UT X58-T3eH8