Intel Intros 3-Series Chipsets with FSB1333 and DDR3

System Power Consumption

We performed the power consumption tests in a different test lab where we did not have access to DDR3 memory, which is why the following charts include only the DDR2-800 results. However, this turns out to be interesting, as it is an apples-to-apples comparison between the P35 and several other chipsets, most of which run DDR2-800 memory as well.

Patrick Schmid
Editor-in-Chief (2005-2006)

Patrick Schmid was the editor-in-chief for Tom's Hardware from 2005 to 2006. He wrote numerous articles on a wide range of hardware topics, including storage, CPUs, and system builds.