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Power Consumption And Heat

One of the fastest motherboards in benchmarks, the Rampage II Extreme also consumed the most power.

Latent heat normally reduces efficiency, but the most miserly of today’s boards has the hottest VRM while the most power hungry maintains the lowest temperatures.

Thomas Soderstrom
Thomas Soderstrom is a Senior Staff Editor at Tom's Hardware US. He tests and reviews cases, cooling, memory and motherboards.