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Power consumption is limited by power management via package power. If you set it to 35W, it will stay there. You're welcome to argue T chips are more efficient than standard chips in the sense that they clock higher at same TDP, but I beg to differ. I'll try to come back with some data on this, will see what CB 15 score my chip gets at 35W limit so we can make a meaningful comparison.That doesn't seem to tell us what we need to know, though. Namely power consumption info.
I wasn't making this argument to support the K chip, but it so happens that is what I have to work with - any other chip applies. The only standard chip I would recommend against is the 6400.Why use a K chip?
I got the Z170 board at the same price I would have gotten the H chipset board - a combination of heavy discount + inflated prices on H boards in mITX factor in my country. That skewed price/perf ratio in the sense that the K chip perf/price became more or less the same with i5 6500 which was my target to start with. I missed a heavily discounted 6500 by a day or two.
The GB4 comparison I posted was to show how any Skylake chip can operate at a desired TDP once configured properly, with the advantage of keeping low threaded performance at higher levels.And, we don't see a T chip for comparison.
T chip is considerably cheaper than a K chip, and it includes a cooler.
- T chip is more or less the same price with the standard chip, which also includes the stock cooler.
- people going for passive or near passive cooling will not use stock cooler.
- with a proper cooler one can make small systems or near passive systems with higher than 35W TDP CPUs