Feel you so free to read all my articles about power measurement to understand, how I measure. I spent a lot of time and money in this project and developed this methodology over 5 years together with Rohde & Schwarz. And I'm comparing /sharing my data with all big AIB, they trust me. I worked 17 years in the industry and I know what I do.
For power draw I'm collecting the data over ethernet, four channels for voltage and four channels for current. Calibrated with the delay of my precision clamps. I also programmed an intelligent low-pass-filter for all and I'm sure, my resultion on the scopes is high enough
@all stalked out:
I'm not a newbie, benchmarks first. And I do all torture and power draw tests twice - before and after
Their paste is not bad. I just tell you a secret. Most of all media samples were proofed manually from the manufacturers and are far away from retail. I know the production process in detail and can mention, if they used other thermal grease or assembled it manually. Golden samples... Not my taste. This both cards are retail. And I have also a lot of original thermal grease from the factories. Call it souvenirs