Power Consumption and Temperatures

Our chosen configuration for testing here barely pushes this board's VRM design, and that's exactly how we want it. Both the VRM and PCH cooler feature large metal elements that are well exposed to airflow, with the VRM cooler being purposely designed to catch airflow to aid in cooling that part of the board so that it doesn't transfer heat on to the CPU via the board's internal copper traces. I did also test this board with an i7-8700K, and it did just as well as with the i5-8400, so no matter which CPU you choose, you shouldn't have to concern yourself about the VRM or chipset overheating even in the harshest of climates and with the system chock-full of VGAs.