Replaced old Antec SmartPower-350 with EarthWatts-380D, power consumption went down to 40W. Well, I will live with that.

Just built myself a system for file storage/torrents: Gigabyte D510UD RAM 2GB HDD 2x1TB WD10EADS PSU Antec TruePower 360W The system idles at 45W measured at the wall, under Prime 95 it goes up to 50W, I am shocked, I expected about 30W. Antec PSU may not be the most efficient but my old PIII 933 bo...

I will add my own stats here.

MA785GT-UD3H
Athlon X4 630
DDR3 2x2GB

Default voltages
idle 75W
load, Prime95 165W

VCore 1.15V
idle 70W
load, Prime95 122W

Interesting reading. However ixbtlabs measurments for MSI 785GM-E65 look unrealistically low: 10W - idle, 39-56W - Far Cry. And this is with Phenom II X4 810. Tom's Hardware came up with 85W idle / 128W under load for the same board and Phenom II X2, X3 CPUs. Go figure, might depend on the measurmen...

Thank you all for the feedback. Power draw seems to be reasonable and not so scary as some reviews show.
Cheers.

Motherboard: GIGABYTE GA-MA78GPM-DS2H AM2+/AM2 AMD 780G HDMI Micro ATX AMD Motherboard AMD 64 X2 5200+ (89W) Integrated Graphics (ATI HD 3200) 2 hard drives 2 800MHZ 1 gb Corsair RAM sticks 55 Watts at idle 137 Watts at load (transcoding DVD to x264) CentOS 5.2 64 bit Using NSK-1380 stock power sup...

Hi, I am going to build a new system mostly for video editing, Photoshop, HD video, very occasional gaming. Currently looking at this config: Motherboard: Gigabyte MA785GT-UD3H CPU: Athlon II X4 630 RAM: 2x2GB DDR3 Video: built-in The only thing that concerns me is power consumption. In different re...