Personally power consumption isn't a priority concern for me, my systems pretty much all consume copious amounts of power and go to S3 sleep when not in use.

If one was worried deeply about heat dump and power consumption getting involved in threads regarding high end equipment of any sort at XS is really the wrong place to be.

Its almost akin to complaining about the noise and fuel consumption of a top fuel dragster and wondering why it can't be as quiet and economic as a honda civic or even a corvette.

I'll reserve my judgement until after reliable results are up....