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Originally Posted by Human No More

375W idle isn't so bad when you consider how 1.5kW PSUs exist.

375W at load can be acceptable depending on the use, but at idle? That's utter madness I tell you, madness. My system draws about 85W idle and the monitor adds another 20-30W. Under heavy gaming however the power draw can go somewhere around 250W. Also, 1 - 1.5kW PSUs are overkill by any definition. That is unless one is running a system with 4 GPUs or something similarly retarded.

You can't load >100%, but not every application is even capable of 100% load in the first place. In addition, some types of calculation are more instruction intensive than others.

The processor can't handle more instructions than it's capable of doing on a hardware level. I don't think any application or calculation is so well optimized that it can fully utilize all cores 100% with 100% efficiency. That is although the load is 100% on all cores on most CPU heavy applications, it still doesn't mean you get the theoretical maximum calculation output of having all the cores on full load.