Why would

[peanuthead]

I test benched two systems and the Haswell setup idled 2 watts higher that the IB setup. They both sat idle at the BIOS screen. Why would that be? The test setups were as follows:

IB Setup:
Gigabyte Z77N-Wifi
Celeron G1610
Corsair 2GB DDR3 RAM (same RAM used in both systems)
Random mITX PS (same PS used in both systems)
Using on board video

Haswell Setup:
Gigabyte Z97N-Wifi
Celeron G1820
Corsair 2GB DDR3 RAM (same RAM used in both systems)
Random mITX PS (same PS used in both systems)
Using on board video

 

[Tsumi]

Sitting at the bios doesn't have power saving functions enabled.

 

[peanuthead]

Sitting at the bios doesn't have power saving functions enabled.

Well I feel like a dope. I suspected that but didn't give it much more than a glance. Thanks for redirecting my on the correct path.