[DCKing]

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]

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]

Surely it's clear we're talking about home and small business servers?

[bayindirh]

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]

Great. Who reports idle power on a datasheet?