power consumption of nforce3/4?

Ironic · Post by **Ironic** » Sun Jul 03, 2005 1:58 pm

Does anybody the power consumption of the nforce3 and 4 for amd?
I saw that it was about half the one of the nforce intel edition which was 29, so it would make about 15.
Can anyone confirm that? It seems low.

And where does the chipset draw its power from, the 3V, 5v or 12v?

jamesm · Post by **jamesm** » Sat Jul 09, 2005 9:22 am

try sending an email to gigabyte, msi, aopen, asus, abit, or (insert company that builds NF4 boards here).

Post by **MikeC** » Sat Jul 09, 2005 10:39 am

No idea where the chipset gets it current from, but I've read the nForce 4 chipset pulls upwards of 30W, which explains whay ALL the nF4 boards have a fan on the NB HS. A reviewer I met at Computex also mentioned measuring over 30W...

frostedflakes · Post by **frostedflakes** » Sat Jul 09, 2005 10:47 am

That means it is on par with an Athlon64 3000+ Winchester/Venice, which is just nuts. Hopefully the next generation of chipsets will be less power hungry.

perplex · Post by **perplex** » Sat Jul 09, 2005 11:11 am

i wonder what Intel chipsets consume. As it may be that a pentium M (dothan) desktop would seem the best currently, even more so than it already is after knowing the motherboard chipset's power consumption

Post by **MikeC** » Sat Jul 09, 2005 11:19 am

Please view that 30W figure cautiously; it is from 3rd party sources and I have no way to verify it at this time.

jamesm · Post by **jamesm** » Sat Jul 09, 2005 6:04 pm

This power supply calculator automatically gives AMD motherboards 45W.