The efficiency is insane, however so is the price. I guess with no competition though it's kinda expected the price will be high.

I'd probably pick one of these up in a year or two when the price drops to $70 or $80 when competition is stronger. That is unless something better shows up.

Black one looks a lot better than the silver/white combo.

Looks like a dirty clothes hamper. Not a fan of the design at all.

http://accessories.us.dell.com/sna/productdetail.aspx?c=us&l=en&s=bsd&cs=04&sku=320-9327 I picked up this monitor and have been using it a couple days. Thought some would be interested here since this monitor is LED and sips power (EPEAT Gold). Highest brightness (100) it pulls 22w from the wall, de...

Freeco I have the same board and processor with a Corsair VX450 and doing a complete shutdown the computer uses 1 watt from the wall. If using the standby feature it uses 3 watts. Not sure but could be your mobo or possibly PSU. I have some older PSU's that when shut down use around 4 to 5 watts but...

Delta has a platinum rated supply now as well (1U but hey better than nothing). Gold is now only second best.
http://80plus.org/manu/psu/psu_reports/ ... Report.pdf

I just tried BIOS 1.8 on my MSI H55M-E33 and the power consumption is whack on my i3 530. It idles a full 10-11 watts higher with BIOS 1.8 looking at my Kill-A-Watt. Even the CPU is hotter during idle about 5 degrees Celsius. This is with optimized BIOS defaults with just a few tweaks, so there is s...

Idle power consumption for the MSI GTX 460 Cyclone OC is very good for the performance. Be nice to see how other GTX 460 cards compare.

I went back and forth between the Athlon II 240 and i3 530 and ended up going with i3 but for slightly different reasons. I tend to keep a system till it's almost unusable then upgrade, so I went with i3 because I felt it would have longer legs than the Athlon II as time marched on. The i3 does have...

Thanks for this review! I've been looking around for an ATX PSU that would bring my i3 530 down into the ~25w range and this unit looks like it might be a winner. Right now I'm using an overpowered Corsair VX450 which idles around 32w which is ok, but not optimal. Looks like I won't have to mod the ...

How many watts difference in energy usage is there between:
(a) a standard H55 1156 socket mother board with a Clarkdale chip, using the Clarkdale video capability
vs.
(b) that same motherboard using a Radeon 5450 video card

In round numbers probably 10w difference AC.

Hook up a second monitor and idle power consumption jumps 80w with 90c temps. This thing will make a nice space heater under the desk.

Go here. I need 3 posts before I can link (remove space) :
legitreviews .com/article/1258/15/

I put together MSI H55M-E33 + i3 530 with 4GB (2x2GB) 1.5v rated Corsair RAM, oldish NEC DVD-RW drive (IDE), Samsung EcoGreen 1TB, and my idle power consumption with an overpowered VX450 Corsair PSU was consistently 32w. When I would step away for 5 minutes or so it would dip to 31w and occasionally...