Quote Originally Posted by saaya View Post
did you meassure this?
i highly doubt that... my 920 D0 pulls more than 130W at stock speed with all 8 threads loaded... im 100% sure but unfortunately dont have a watt meter...
A fully loaded Xeon W3540 running Linx at 4.45GHz, EPS draw is around 21.5 amps. Around 250W of total draw on EPS 12V - 15~20% switching loss, 40w to VTT, around 160w to VCC. Do you think a 870 @ 4GHz pulls more to VCC than a Xeon W3540?