And what fewer people know is that the power limit is often disguised as “cpu cooler type”. It’s bizarre but I guess it makes sense in a target market consumer

And what fewer people know is that the power limit is often disguised as “cpu cooler type”. It’s bizarre but I guess it makes sense in a target market consumer way. Some (usually cheaper) motherboards won’t even run the processor you get at it’s stock maximums until changing the TDP (cooler type) manually.