Mickey: i7 4770 Haswell (4 Gen) power consumption measurements on idle.

My compo is:
i7 4770 + DDR3 with XMP 2400 active (Jedec 1600) + GTX1060 6GB + six HDD.

I have my tower alone, this be connected to a low-cost power meter.
Idle consumption this is never less than 95 Watt at 240V.
I did one experiment and I did activate Haswell lowest power state, = all CPU core goes down to 800MHz instead of 3.7GHz (on idle).
The strange thing is that power consumption this does not decrease at all.

I do not need any advice to under-volt anything, I am...

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