News - MSI ECO Series motherboards officially announced

[HEXUS]

Three motherboards which offer up to 40% power saving with 100% performance.

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[Wozza63]

Great idea, good to see companies trying to reduce power usage on PCs, this combined with DDR4, SSDs etc can make for much lower power requirements and in the long run money saved.

[DemonHighwayman]

I just got an MSI board for my new build and have to say the quality is great and certainly rivals Asus who I have normally used in the past. If I played the stock markets I'd certainly get shares in MSI as they seem to know exactly what customers want these days.

[tigertop1]

Agree with both Wozza365 and DemonHighwayman. My experience of three MSI boards has been a positive one and they are extremely well thought out and of great quality. If the new Eco series can be proved to do all they claim they will get top consideration on my next build

[Liam-McShane]

I can only see this saving a few watts at best. It will save people pennies a year.

[bledd]

A saving of 10 Watts on a 24/7 machine is around £10 per year, based on my rough calculations

[Top_gun]

I can only see this saving a few watts at best. It will save people pennies a year.

I despair when I see comments like this. Surely the biggest issue facing us is climate change and we should do all we can to mitigate this phenomenon. Even a few watts saving can be substantial when you calculate total saving over a decade multiplied hundreds of millions of people. Enough power saving not to spend billions on building power stations which means money can be invested elsewhere like healthcare.

Companies such as MSI must be encouraged so that we can see further innovations in eco products.

[kompukare]

The potential is for a lot more than few watts. A quick google shows a few comparisions

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/...p,3656-24.html
http://uk.hardware.info/reviews/2858...gy-consumption

The second one compares 32 Z77 boards and at idle the spread is 24W to 54W which is an extra 30W for the worst board or 225%!

At load #1 the spread was 85.2W to 110W, and load #2 had 61.3W to 91.7W. These are rather significant figures especially at idle. In fact, the 24W load one should most likely be able to run totally fanless most of the time.

[krazy_olie]

While climate change is important the 'small change big difference' mantra is a fallacy... small change, small difference. Motherboard usage probably accounts for a minute amount of global energy.

That said, no harm done in getting power usage down, eventually this tech filters in to the mainstream. Should global energy prices rise then for individuals such differences are magnified.

[wolfsSpirit]

Actualy a lot is already automated within windows , disabling devices after a specific time when not using them or just disable them right away.
They're late , but i am glad to see they finaly started it . now automate powersaving.
btw i already have eco mode on my MSI board , tho not automated , wich is why i don't use it , It's pretty useless since i need to reboot every time my system to bios to enable/disable things .
For now i keep using the "in windows" control.
Hopefully we get a program so we can disable things from within the OS itself without going through the trouble of reboots.

[zsde]

@bledd, that's for one machine. Its about many people saving small bits of energy. A million people saving 10W makes a couple of kW less demand on the grid. Every bit counts.

[Top_gun]

While climate change is important the 'small change big difference' mantra is a fallacy... small change, small difference. Motherboard usage probably accounts for a minute amount of global energy.

Disagree with the fallacy, the small difference can mean whether someone's homeis under water or not.

That said, no harm done in getting power usage down, eventually this tech filters in to the mainstream. Should global energy prices rise then for individuals such differences are magnified.

It's not just saving energy and global warming. Energy security is another important consideration. Especially when someone like Putin can hold other countries to energy ransom.