Anyone with a i7 4930k and kill-a-watt metre?

ithehappy

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I wanna upgrade my current rig to a 4930k based one, and I would like to know beforehand how much power does it consume in an average. I want to know because I have two rigs at my home, one X58 based for gaming and all those, and the other i3, 3rd gen for 24x7 jobs etc. I have heard that the new CPU's 32/22 nm consume much less power than the 45 nm ones, that's normal physics, but I want an approx figure, to decide if I really need that other 24x7 desktop. If the 4930k consumes less power then I will sale the other system, and will get a decent amount of money which will help me buying a decent GPU, besides if power consumption is on par on both then there's no point in keeping two desktops.
So anyone who has a 4930k and a kill a watt metre kindly input here how much power does it draw from the board? I mean on IDLE, when nothing is basically open, other than downloading software like IDM or uTorrent. I don't care about the load consumption. Also please mention your GPU, and whether the monitor was on or off.

Thanks in advance.

PS: CPU @ stock clock I mean.
 
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Essence_of_War

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Anandtech has taken a look at it too:

http://www.anandtech.com/print/7255/intel-core-i7-4960x-ivy-bridge-e-review

Specifically, here's a link to the idle/load power graphs:
http://images.anandtech.com/graphs/graph7255/57936.png
http://images.anandtech.com/graphs/graph7255/57937.png

Here's their testbed for the x79:

Motherboard(s)
ASUS X79 Deluxe

Memory
Corsair Vengeance DDR3-1866 9-10-9-27

SSD
Corsair Neutron GTX 240GB
OCZ Agility 3 240GB
OCZ Vertex 3 240GB

Video Card
NVIDIA GeForce GTX Titan x 2 (only 1 used for power tests)

PSU
Corsair AX1200i

Summary (at the wall, testbed only w/o monitor):
~75W idle
~210W under h.264 encode load
 

ithehappy

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Hmm. Thanks. 75W without monitor? Not bad. But not enough I guess. I wish it were like 4770k, which IDLES around same wattage, with monitor :)
Anyway, thanks.