> No, Intel classifies TDP as the instantaneous maximum power draw Are you sure about that? I can't dig up the link at the moment, but I seem to recall some ha

> No, Intel classifies TDP as the instantaneous maximum power draw Are you sure about that? I can't dig up the link at the moment, but I seem to recall some hardware hacker thread where people would regularly exceed the TDP of Intel chips by running SSE/AVX-heavy workloads like Prime95, and Intel's response was basically, "That's not a real workload, it doesn't count". Which is not an unreasonable answer, but it's definitely not defining TDP as the maximum possible power draw.