Some Power Supplies May Be Incompatible with Intel's Haswell CPUs

Intel's new 4th Generation Core i CPUs, codenamed "Haswell", due out in June, may be incompatible with many of the power supplies on today's market- causing system instability. VR-zone reports:

According to our sources, the new C6/C7 power states on the Haswell-Shark Bay platform will require the system power supply to be able to maintain a minimum current load of 0.05Amps on the CPU exclusive 12V2 rail (0.6W).

Corsair's Robert Pierce has postulated that motherboard manufacturers may disable C6/C7 support by default in order to work around the issue.

Source:
http://vr-zone.com/articles/is-your-power-supply-ready-for-haswell-/19848.html

http://www.tweaktown.com/news/30075...h-haswell-s-c6-c7-low-power-states/index.html

not a big issue... easy to resolve.

For real, the headline made it sound so much worst then it is.