C2D Chipset Power Consumption Shootout

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Interestingly enough, the general application tests show the largest gap in power consumption between the chipsets. But all four categories agree that Intel's P965 chipset is your best bet when it comes to power consumption and as we've shown here, performance as well.

The power consumption aspect is obviously only one part of the decision to go with a particular chipset, and in the case of the nForce 570 SLI - support for NVIDIA's SLI technology is a major reason to opt for this chipset. If, however, you are like the majority of the population and don't plan on taking advantage of any multi-GPU solutions then support for SLI isn't too important. If your goal is simply good performance and lower power consumption, then the P965 brings you one step closer to attaining that goal.

For those interested in even lower power consumption there are two more options available: Merom Desktop solutions and AMD's Energy Efficient line of CPUs. We'll be looking at those next...