For recording the measured values, we used our tried and tested test platform. This consists of an Asus P4P800 motherboard, which we modified in such a manner that it was possible to measure the real power consumption of the CPU during operation.
The test platform, pictured here with an Intel reference cooler
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Intel Processor (Socket 478)
200 MHz FSB (Dual DDR400)
Pentium 4 3.20 GHz (3200 MHz 12-8/512 kB)
Memory
DDR400 (200 MHz)
2 x 256 MB / 5ns / 64 Bit (TakeMS)
Motherboard
Intel 875
Asus P4P800 Rev: 1.02Bios: 1010
General Hardware
Graphics Card
ATI Radeon 9800 XTMemory: 256 MB DDR-SDRAM
Hard Drive
40 GB,WD400BB-00DEA0, Western DigitalUDMA100, 7200 rpm, 2 MB Cache
Network
D-Link DFE-530TX (10/100 Mbit)
CDROM
Asus 52x
Drivers
Intel Chipset
V 5.1.1.1002
Graphics Driver
ATI Catalyst 4.1 (7.97)
DirectX
Version: 9b
OS
Windows XP, Build 2600 SP1
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