**[OFFICIAL]** GIGABYTE Z77X Owners Club/Discussion/Info (All Model's Welcome)

[cadaveca]

1 to 7 Watts for the Z77X-UD5H powered OFF or suspended? Mine is steady 5W powered off. Some draw is normal for S3 but should be ZERO when off.

Very few boards are 0W when turned off. Is not different than many electronic devices, or so I thought. I know this is not ASUS thread, but ASUS ROG boards, with their lights and such are the same, but enabled ERP, and the lights and such turn off.


And yes, some models are better than others, but I really can not think of a board that had straight 0W. Many have lower draw when at desktop and idle than when sitting stand-by. 3-5 W is normal in my testing

Perhaps I see more fluctuations because my measurement device refreshes more often? I am not sure...


I have my kill-a-watt clone plugged in power bar directly above my monitor so I can see it whenever I want, so this IS something I have noticed as well. U have reviewed 40+ boards over the past two years, all are the same.


Something just occurred to me while fixing typos here...I seem to recall that these numbers change depending on what PSU is used, so I had personally dismissed this as PSU at fault, but your info brings something else to it. I wonder how many of these boards draw from -12 V?