It's a stupid standard in real life setups, example for every sata device you will need to run a cable from the motherboard for power and sata now, so it is adding more cable mess in reality. It's intel being intel and they have tried these standards in the past too and failed. This is nothing more than trying to create e-waste of old psus & motherboards and trying to do what is not needed, the power saving rubbish can be done on ATX PSUs anyways so they are talking rubbish about the power savings they made up, let them test a ATX PSU that is actually good not the junk they compared it too in them results.
This is not the way to go and motherboard makers are upset from what I am reading about this too, saying it will only create more headaches for them and for customers that cause power damage to the boards as there will need to be a repair on the board when a short is caused to any power lines, where the psu will just shut down under them situations and will not start back up until the short is removed. Also what is easier to replace a motherboard or just a psu when you end up with a power issue. Now you have to wonder if it's the psu or the motherboard. Intel and their stupid standards that are not needed with current hardware, sorry I don't want to run many ssd power cables of my motherboard, I don't even take power from the motherboard for fan headers only the PWM signal and take power from the PSU to feed the fans to stop any issues with frying headers that can also take out your motherboard, this is a backward step from Intel and should not be for the pc hardware market and if they really want to use it give it to Dell and HP or any system builders that love to lock customers down to their parts only due to special connectors and sizes of the hardware they use.
The dumbest thing I have seen since Nvidia and their stupid GPU power connector in the last year.
