Quote Originally Posted by Cooper View Post
Rammsteiner

if you do not know poeple at xbitlabs and how they work you have no rights to judge their credibility. Secondly TDP numbers don't come from nowhere cos motherboard and heatsinks vendors must know these numbers to design their products and Intel must know these numbers to design packaging. As for the Intel's methods some details can be found in the tech docs:
By no means I tried to down play Xbit labs. I more meant that I think it's funny Xbit labs got screwed over a 180 degree after their Deneb FX posts but the same people (group) of people use XBit labs as link for their back up. I think that's quite, well, weird

I know TDP numbers after all come from somewhere, but IMO it's also strange if they rate a TDP for a certain CPU it actually doesnt match. It's like 'Oh, this core uses this much, we rate all the CPU's for that number', that's what I meant for 'nowhere'.

I mean, for lower end CPU's it would be quite stupid, to say the least, to rate it way higher than its actual TDP, but also it's a stupid under rate a high end CPU.