Quote Originally Posted by Manicdan View Post
^thanks a bunch, i completely forgot about the other 3dmark tests

do you think those make great use of the ram and core? or is the rams power consumption just so minor today compared to core and vrms
The Batch Size test uses less than 5% of an eight core CPU at most as long as long as the detail settings are increased enough to ensure 30-40FPS. Higher than that and CPU cycles begin to be eaten up.

IMO, the memory really is minimal in its impact. What is a concern is HDD power though. Some tests and games tend to access the hard drive much more frequently and certain high capacity drives can consume 15W or more during certain read/write/seek operations. When you're talking about certain lower-end cards, that 15W can have a massive impact. Hence why any test chosen should not stress the HDD during rendering.