QUIET! wrote:A smart and inexpensive setup would be a picoPSU with a 12v brick wired for 12v current measurement.
picoPSU arent that common on the market, my guess is more than 95% of the people that use desktops never have even heard of them. If they were to test with them, then people will complain that they didn't use a standard atx psu, 99% of the pc use standard psu, just not this super high end $200+ psu, still i feel its more correct to do it with that than with a picoPSU for practical purposes and for the audience that they are targeted.
I really don't care much about the haswell quads consumption, personally im going to peruse the c6/c7 power state for the 2C less temp, but i do think once the haswell dual core i3, pentium and celeron are release, we might see sites like SPCR and MissingRemote to put some setups that might use some picoPSU or alikes.