Anyone here own Foxconn or ECS 740g motherboards?

[somename]

I just got a Foxconn 740g a74mx-k delivered and have a ECS A740GM-M coming for a couple of builds, and my Foxconn machine is compounding me a little. I just put together a quick build with 4850e, 2x2gb generic DDR2, 80gb 2.5 hdd, and nothing else, and the thing is idling at 55W or so.

I know another member here had a machine with the same motherboard idling at 30-something watts, and I would like some advice because I have to be doing something wrong. I also had a same setup but with Gigabyte M78SM-S2H, and that idled at 40W or so. It just doesn't make any sense to me.

Also, I'd like to know if anyone here used ECS A740GM-M. I'll get getting that in soon, and I was just curious what power numbers other people got.

Thanks for the help.

[QuietOC]

I just got a Foxconn 740g a74mx-k delivered and have a ECS A740GM-M coming for a couple of builds, and my Foxconn machine is compounding me a little. I just put together a quick build with 4850e, 2x2gb generic DDR2, 80gb 2.5 hdd, and nothing else, and the thing is idling at 55W or so.

I have a Foxconn A74MX-K with a Sempron LE-1250. You don't mention (1) your power supply, (2) the CPU voltage, or (3) how you are measuring the power draw. 55W sounds awfully high, but you may have a PS that is only 50% efficient with a 28W load.

The 740G and 780G northbridges both idle around 1W, so there shouldn't be a measurable difference between the idle power of similar 740G and 780G motherboards. The boards normally aren't similar, and 740G motherboards do tend to be lower power than 780G motherboards.

[somename]

The PSU used is Antec MT300 that come in Minuet case. I don't think it has greatest efficiency, but the same system with GF8200 board(GA-M78SM-S2H) only drew 40W idle with same PSU.

The CPU voltage was set at 1.1V, I think. It was the lowest I could take from BIOS, I believe. I measured the wattage with Kill-A-Watt at AC.

It's weird. I'm now thinking the board is defective somehow, though I was able to install XP on it fine.

[wferrari]

I have a ECS A740GM-M with a Sempron LE-1200 on it. The Sempron is running at 0.8Ghz @ 0.8volt on idle and 2.1Ghz @ 1.1volt on load. I'm using a PicoPSU 90Watt with a 80Watt Brick, a WD Caviar Green 1 TB SATA Hard Drive (WD10EACS), and 2GB single RAM module from OCZ @ 400mhz (The MB does not let you decrease the frenquency of the RAM, or of the FSB).

My system runs at 33-34W on idle and 51W on 100% load. I was kinda disappointed, since I'm not expecting a CPU TDP of more than 7W when idle.