lowest power 785g and am2+/am3 mobo?

Zargon · Post by **Zargon** » Fri Mar 05, 2010 9:32 am

needs to be ddr2 compliant

I was looking at the gigabyte GIGABYTE GA-MA785GM-US2H

surrealillusion · Post by **surrealillusion** » Mon Mar 08, 2010 4:58 pm

I'm running running that board with the following components:

AMD Athlon X2 240 (undervolted to 1.125v in bios)
4 gigs of DDR2 RAM (Mushkin)
Seagate 7200.11 500GB HDD
Pioneer DVR-218LBK

This setup currently idles around 42w in Windows XP.

loimlo · Post by **loimlo** » Mon Mar 08, 2010 9:04 pm

I think MSI is better in terms of power consumption based on my experience and SPCR's reviews.

http://www.silentpcreview.com/article1003-page6.html

Zargon · Post by **Zargon** » Tue Mar 09, 2010 7:39 am

yeah I read that, thats the DDR3 board though(I think?), not the DD2 one.

I would hope its VERY similar, but I am not sure

surrealillusion:

thanks!! great info to have