Power consumption
There are some caveats about the voltage settings of the various processors in our power consumption test that I've explained in detail before. They still apply here.
We measured the power consumption of our entire test systems, except for the monitor, at the wall outlet using a Watts Up PRO watt meter. The test rigs were all equipped with OCZ PowerStream 470W power supply units. The idle results were measured at the Windows desktop, and we used Cinebench's rendering test to load up the CPUs. For P4s, we used the multithreaded version of the test to take advantage of Hyper-Threading.

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