Skidmarksdeluxe
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You must remember that Intel doesn't design chips for the desktop specifically anymore. All Haswell desktop chips are derived and adapted from laptop parts where power states are important.
Most power supplies won't support Haswell's C6/C7 low-power states
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Skidmarksdeluxe
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Corsair uses a lot of OEM's for their PSU's Seasonic is just one of them.
Skidmarksdeluxe
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If your PSU can't support the new power states then you shouldn't loose any sleep over it. Just disable them in the BIOS if they're not already disabled.
PSU manufacturers should be paying Intel for introducing these new power states because when people hear about this they'll rush off to buy new units. The R&D costs to implement this in upcoming PSU's will be negligible.
PSU manufacturers should be paying Intel for introducing these new power states because when people hear about this they'll rush off to buy new units. The R&D costs to implement this in upcoming PSU's will be negligible.
dividebyzero
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There are a fair few zero load PSUs on the market, it just means that the vendors will now have another bullet point to add the already lengthy list.
Enermax seem to have the jump on some of the other vendors (so the 23 unit "approved" list is already out of date). Expect a rash of "Haswell Ready" press releases from OEM/ODM's.
Skidmarksdeluxe
Might I suggest the edit button. Triple posting
Seventh Reign
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Right .. because electricity is free ... Try having 6 High End Gaming Desktop PCs, all running at the same time, and say there isnt any point in reducing power consumption, after you see your electricity bill.
You know there might be some truth to this but the current facts presented is TOTAL BS. Either the report is worded very wrong or these vrzone guys have no idea what the difference between voltage and current is.
If something requires less current (0.05 vs 0.5 Amp) than what your current device can supply then there is absolutely no problem. And the current draw is not supposed to affect the voltage output of the psu AT ALL unless you try drawing more current than the device can support which will lead to voltage drops.
This whole thing seems like its a new publicity stunt from certain PSU manufacturers to bash other companies and promote their products. Just like the "Y2K ready" era was mostly BS.
If something requires less current (0.05 vs 0.5 Amp) than what your current device can supply then there is absolutely no problem. And the current draw is not supposed to affect the voltage output of the psu AT ALL unless you try drawing more current than the device can support which will lead to voltage drops.
This whole thing seems like its a new publicity stunt from certain PSU manufacturers to bash other companies and promote their products. Just like the "Y2K ready" era was mostly BS.
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It's amazing how many posters are oblivious to the benefits of low idle. Low idle allows your system to stay on 24x7, making it available for tasks without having to wake from S3 or hibernation. Those of us who run home media servers have been dying for something like this for a while. No more having to choose between high electric bills and having elaborate setups to send Wake on Lan packets to your box when you're not local to your LAN. No more having to fiddle with S3 settings to have your box sleep and wake correctly. (Go to sleep if idle for 10 mins. Crap, but not while a video or music is playing. Oh damnit, an active network connection is keeping my box awake all the time, I'll disable it. Oh crap, now my box shuts off while it's backing up. Ahh!!!) I don't really care about peak power usage, just hate to waste 60 watts for the box to sit and do nothing. Looking forward to upgrading to Haswell.
Vrmithrax
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I can assure you, this is not something that was just made up or misrepresented. The problem is in how the power supply handles the ultra low power draw. I've run into this many times with very expensive industrial power supplies as well as smaller consumer grade units driving electronic control systems.
If the circuitry of the power supply is too "generic" (for lack of a better term), those ultra low power modes could be electrically considered a "no load" situation. Meaning, you get a complete drop to zero. Sleep state now becomes a coma. Or, even worse, there is no actual stabilization at those super low power states, so you get little constant fluctuations. The fluctuations may be tiny when compared to the full scale of the power supply, but when compared to a 0.05 amp level, they could be huge. Sleep state now becomes a seizure. Hence the warning about possible instabilities.
Jad Chaar
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Upgrading to more modern components is part of the whole deal. You cant use DDR2 with a modern CPU for instance.
Darth Shiv
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JC713 It's not just about whether you can pay for electricity. Haswell is not using power it doesn't have to when you are idling. Gaming rigs aren't running games the whole time they're on imho. People stop for food, drinks, talking etc. Also less power draw in idle is less heat so I don't know why there is a problem with moving to better PSU tech and allowing ultra low power states?
cliffordcooley
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In the grand scheme of things from a global perspective, changing one CRT monitor for a LCD is unnecessary. Going green in only one room of your home is unnecessary. Going green in only one aspect of the PC would be unnecessary. The idea is to go green with every possible aspect that presents itself.
Sometimes I wonder if innovators see their innovations as unnecessary because of such little progression. But yet if these innovations could see the light of day, they would pave the way to a new future. At least in the PC industry things are still moving forward.
Darth Shiv
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Because they can. It's an improvement in an area that can be improved. TDP increase - well I'd hope that any TDP increase has a decent performance increase associated with it!
Jad Chaar
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It is because of the new graphics.
cliffordcooley
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That would be my guess.
Jad Chaar
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There isnt any increase in clock speed and nothing new that would eat up power other than graphics.
Adhmuz
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As long as your overclocking this doesn't concern you. If your concerned with power usage unplug a clock or something, you'd save more power that way. This is such a minuscule change in power consumption I'd be surprised if anyone can tie it in to saving power on their monthly electrical bill. For laptops I guess it makes sense, in a desktop, really not so much. At .6 Watts the CPU is practically off it might as well be, and btw do they mention how much power is required to return to a usable state? I've been disabling Low power states since my first Intel chip, don't see it changing with Haswell.
Darth Shiv
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Was just doing some reading on non-GFX related performance. Performance increases of 7-12% from new branch prediction, better cache performance (handles cache misses better), "deeper buffers" (presuming the instruction fetch buffers increased?), more execution units (that is a very interesting one).
