Temperatures and consumption

We tried to measure the temperatures of the new AMD A8-3850 using both the CPUID HWMonitor software, and the software bundled with the motherboard, EasyTune 6; in both cases, the reported temperatures were 52 °C for the IDLE system and 53 °C for the system at full load.

This occurred at both standard frequency and overclocking, as the last image displayed on the previous page. This makes us think that current software is not yet able to detect the correct temperature of the system. We will update the data as software that can detect the proper temperatures become available.

A very interesting aspect of this new platform are the power consumption. Through a power meter we have recorded consumption value of the entire system both in idle, with the CPU under stress and in the field of gaming. Here are the values ​​found.

Note how in the field of gaming, consumption of the entire system is very balanced and low, reaching peaks of just 119W; a quite exciting result. In the CPU load sessions, however, the system consumes 165W, a standard value.