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does it mean max power consumption on a certain hardware?

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Thermal Design Power, basically how much wattage can pass through a component before it goes BOOM
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Thermal Design Power, basically how much wattage can pass through a component before it goes BOOM

oh i see, thanks.
    
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I don't think that's entirely correct. It's the power consumption of the CPU on maximum loading at stock. As you increase overclock, the TDP usually changes a little bit as well (usually increases). Correct me if I'm wrong though.
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As swift castiel says when loading at stock clocks it should be the max power consumption, & is a reference for how much cooling a cpu/gpu will need for partners (like Evga, asus, etc.) to make coolers. When feeding voltage & clocks the gpu or cpu can use more than what the TDP is, far more with extreme overclocking.
    
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Total Draw Power?

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TDP stands for Thermal Design Power, which pretty much means how much heat it will output, for example, a CPU with a TDP of 95W cannot be cooled with a CPU cooler below 95W or it will go above the maximum operating temperature. Same goes for GPU's
 
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