Home » Graphics Cards • Motherboards • Power Supplies » EVGA Z87 Stinger Motherboard and GTX 760 FTW Graphics Card Review EVGA Z87 Stinger Motherboard and GTX 760 FTW Graphics Card Review Stuart Davidson February 12, 2014 Graphics Cards, Motherboards, Power Supplies Power Use and Overclocking Power use was recorded after 15 minutes at idle and then full CPU and GPU load on the i5/A10. Idle Power Load Power EVGA Z87 Stinger / Intel Core i5-4670 51w 173w ASUS Z87I-Pro / Intel Core i5-4670 51w 170w G1.Sniper A88X / AMD A10-7850K 52w 155w EVGA GeForce GTX 760 FTW! Idle > Load Change 164w 65°C ASUS GeForce GTX 760 DirectCU Mini Idle > Load Change 141w 68°C EVGA draw a little more power on their motherboard and graphics card than ASUS which isn’t too much of a surprise, especially on the graphics card. The higher overclock and larger PCB need that extra supply. That said the cooler used by EVGA really does show its strength, keeping the FTW! Edition running at 65°C, maximum with low noise. Max OC EVGA Z87 Stinger / Intel Core i7-4770K 5.0GHz EVGA GeForce GTX 760 FTW! +110MHz core + 1021MHz memory Overclocking both products was a simple process, we used the BIOS settings for our motherboard and EVGA Precision X for the graphics card. We also switched to the I7-4770K for this test so that we could remove any limitations on the CPU side. The overclock we achieved on the Stinger was decent, hitting 5.0GHz although we have seen the CPU go higher on other products. For the GPU our review sample was able to hit some of the highest clocks we have seen from a GTX 760 and took our Fire Strike score to over 6100 points in the latest 3DMark. Before we move to the conclusion we wanted to take note of the PSU used in this review. EVGA provided their 500B unit which is an option worth considering for mini-ITX builds. It has bronze certification in terms of efficiency and a solid feeling metal chassis. Full details on the unit can be found here from EVGA. This is how it performed for us… Testing Temp: 40°C 125W 250W 375W 500W Max Ripple MvP-P 3.3v 3.29v 3.31v 3.30v 3.29v 41 5v 4.99v 5.00v 5.01v 4.99v 45 12v 1 12.019v 12.000v 12.003v 11.997v 90 Efficiency 82.3% 85.6% 84.3% 82.9% Pages: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Share On
