Hello all, noob here looking for help. I have a 550 BE on a gigabyte ma 790xt ud4p and when I open the energy saver program the board comes with it shows it's at 50w. I just upgraded my board from a gigabyte ma785gm-us2h and that showed it was at 80w. Is there anything I should be looking for in my BIOS settings? Also, on the new board if I opened a program I would see the wattage spike momentarilly to 58w +/-. All my settings are stock, no OC yet.

My set up is very basic:
550 BE
MB 790XT-UD4P
4GB G.Skill 1600
GTS 250 1GB

Thanks in advance for any help.

Any help is appreciated, even if it's to tell me it's a stupid question

Do you have cool & quiet enabled?

What voltage is your cpu running at?

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(Main rig) Phenom II 955 be @3.9Ghz,Asus M4A78T-E 790GX, 2x1Gb Crucial 1333Mhz DDR3, 2x 4870's, ,Corsair tx750w PSU, Thermaltake V9 case.
(2nd rig)Phenom 9850 BE@2.8Ghz, Asus M3A78, 2x2Gb Crucial Ballistix 800Mhz DDR2,Radeon 4650,Creative extreme audio,Sparkle 550w PSU