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Drawing peak power far in excess of the TDP is what all Intel processors have been designed to do for many years now.

Some consider it cheating the benchmarks, but the justification is that TDP is the Thermal Design Power. It's about the cooling system you need, not the power delivery. If you make reasonable assumptions about the thermal inertia of the cooling system you can Turbo Boost at higher power and hope the workload is over before you are forced to throttle down again.

Any mainboard that sets power limits to the TDP would be considered wrong by both the community and Intel. This looks like a solid indication that the issue is with Intel



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