I love people saying its a waste and too much power blahblah.
It isn't going to pull /320w/ all the time. It will periodically, under certain loads, briefly.
My i9-13900K happily slams into 6.4ghz across multiple cores when doing things. And power usage rarely actually hits ~230w doing that. I only ever see absurd power usage under really heavy work loads. Most of the time, itll hit its peaks on a couple of cores when I am doing something and thats that. I would rather slightly higher peak-y power usage for a more performance.
Does power usage really matter for a desktop computer? This power efficiency thing/environmental concern is really a gimmick. There are other industries/things that have way more damage than your computer CPU. Your old car included.
Some apps tend to max out the cpu. The amount of times I'm just doing email and my laptop cpu spins up with all 8 cores maxed out due to a runaway process like mcafee virus scan or something similar is not fun. So I'd assume they could pull a few hundred Watts here too if allowed. Ended up switching to a mac, and now it's office 365 that regularly maxes out my cpu (and Window_server along with it).
It isn't going to pull /320w/ all the time. It will periodically, under certain loads, briefly.
My i9-13900K happily slams into 6.4ghz across multiple cores when doing things. And power usage rarely actually hits ~230w doing that. I only ever see absurd power usage under really heavy work loads. Most of the time, itll hit its peaks on a couple of cores when I am doing something and thats that. I would rather slightly higher peak-y power usage for a more performance.