Power Use and Temperatures

To test the temperature and power use of the system we let the system idle at the desktop for 15 minutes and then took a reading for each aspect. Load tests were performed after 15 minutes of Prime95 and Furmark running the CPU and GPU at 100%.

	Idle	Load
Dell XPS One 27 - Power	77w	202w
Dell XPS One 27 - CPU Temp	49°C	101°C
Dell XPS One 27 - GPU Temp (Nvidia)	38°C	80°C
Dell XPS One 27 - HDD Temp	31°C	33°C

In this review it has very much been a case of so far so good for the XPS One 27" and the power/thermal tests begin well too with the system using 77w at the desktop, topping out at 202w when we stress the CPU and GPU to 100%. Idle temperatures were also good however when we stress the CPU at 100% load it does generate a lot of heat in this compact chassis and the fan kicks in to a noticeable level to try and knock it down.