Test system and evaluation software
The benchmark system is new and I now also use PCIe 4.0, matching X570 motherboards in the form of the MSI MEG X570 Godlike and a selected Ryzen 9 5950X, which was overclocked with water cooling (PBO + 500 MHz). In addition, the matching DDR4 4000 RAM from Corsair, as well as several fast NVMe SSDs. For direct logging during all games and applications, I use my own measuring station with shunts and riser card, as well as NVIDIAs PCAT in games, which increases the comfort immensely.
The measurement of the detailed power consumption and other, more profound things is carried out here in the special laboratory on a redundant and identical test system down to the last detail then double-tracked by means of high-resolution oscillograph technology…
…and the self-created, MCU-based measurement setup for motherboards and graphics cards (pictures below), where in the end the thermographic infrared images are also taken with a high-resolution industrial camera in an air-conditioned room. The audio measurements take place outside in my chamber (room within the room).
I have also summarized the individual components of the test system in tabular form:
| Test System and Equipment |
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|---|---|
| Hardware: |
AMD Ryzen 9 5950X OC MSI MEG X570 Godlike 2x 16 GB Corsair DDR4 4000 Vengeance RGB Pro 1x 2 TByte Aorus (NVMe System SSD, PCIe Gen. 4) 1x 2 TB Corsair MP400 (Data) 1x Seagate FastSSD Portable USB-C Be Quiet! Dark Power Pro 12 1200 Watt |
| Cooling: |
Alphacool Eisblock XPX Pro Alphacool Eiswolf (modified) Thermal Grizzly Kryonaut |
| Case: |
Raijintek Paean |
| Monitor: | BenQ PD3220U |
| Power Consumption: |
Oscilloscope-based system: Non-contact direct current measurement on PCIe slot (riser card) Non-contact direct current measurement at the external PCIe power supply Direct voltage measurement at the respective connectors and at the power supply unit 2x Rohde & Schwarz HMO 3054, 500 MHz multichannel oscilloscope with memory function 4x Rohde & Schwarz HZO50, current clamp adapter (1 mA to 30 A, 100 KHz, DC) 4x Rohde & Schwarz HZ355, probe (10:1, 500 MHz) 1x Rohde & Schwarz HMC 8012, HiRes digital multimeter with memory function MCU-based shunt measuring (own build, Powenetics software) NVIDIA PCAT and FrameView 1.1 |
| Thermal Imager: |
1x Optris PI640 + 2x Xi400 Thermal Imagers Pix Connect Software Type K Class 1 thermal sensors (up to 4 channels) |
| Acoustics: |
NTI Audio M2211 (with calibration file) Steinberg UR12 (with phantom power for the microphones) Creative X7, Smaart v.7 Own anechoic chamber, 3.5 x 1.8 x 2.2 m (LxTxH) Axial measurements, perpendicular to the centre of the sound source(s), measuring distance 50 cm Noise emission in dBA (slow) as RTA measurement Frequency spectrum as graphic |
| OS: | Windows 10 Pro (all updates, current certified or press drivers) |
