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TDP is such a meaningless stat to criticize. People still caring about TDP is a huge pet peeve of mine. The TDP is a nearly entirely fictional number your moder

by DCKing 7y ago

TDP is such a meaningless stat to criticize. People still caring about TDP is a huge pet peeve of mine. The TDP is a nearly entirely fictional number your modern CPU will never operate at. Especially in a home server, the CPU will be maxed out 0.001% of its life, if that. The only stat that matters is idle power, which it will be at for the majority of its life.

bayindirh 7y ago
I'm happy to show you quite a few servers which run almost at their TDP for 7/24/365. Yes, it's not very applicable to home scenarios but spike loads create a lot of noise at home when a CPU has high TDP.
- DCKing 7y ago
  Surely it's clear we're talking about home and small business servers?
  - bayindirh 7y ago
    For sure but what about home servers which do transcoding for example? They will run at their TDP for some time and, create considerable noise and heat.
brians 7y ago
Great. Who reports idle power on a datasheet?