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Intel Core i3-530 and Supermicro X8SIL-F Power Consumption (plus Xeon X3440)

Posted on 23 May 2010. Tags: baseboard, BMC, cpu utilization, h55, h57, heatsink fan, intel core i3-530, intel ssd, intel stock, intel xeon, intel xeon x3440, management controller, motherboard review, picopsu, power consumption, real server, server hardware, SSD, Supermicro, Supermicro x8sil-f, wall socket, watt power, webgui, x25, x8sil-f, X8SIL-F v1.02

To update to my review of the Supermicro X8SIL-F, I took some Kill-A-Watt power consumption numbers with the Supermicro X8SIL-F to answer a few questions regarding power consumption with real server hardware compared to consumer-level hardware. Below I am focusing on idle power consumption as with the Intel Core i3-530, Xeon X3440, and other LGA 1156 CPUs the CPU utilization while running a NAS application will be very low. After a bit of testing I found the i3-530 again leading the pack in idle power consumption and the Xeon X3440 turning in very respectable idle power consumption numbers.