Quote Originally Posted by Rammsteiner View Post
I do understand thus far TDP stands for the amount of Watt to be cooled down (not specially the actual amount of Watt used). Dont know if it's close though. How it's used in industry, no idea actually. How do you mean that actually? For motherboard manufacturers to build their products? Or should I look into a complete other direction? No need for an epic large book work, more like a quick explanation what you meant with that will do
Watts used=Watts to cool on a CPU..well maybe besides 0.0001W in radiation.

TDP= thermal DESIGN power.

In short, nomatter what the CPU uses. the cooling solution can cool 130W of heat. (Thats also equal to 130W used by a CPU).

But thats the reason things are specced as it is. So you dont have to have 117 different cooling solutions. But can do with 3 example.