&gt; You give up on overclockability<p>So let&#x27;s see. Xeons are what I want now. Except for absurd prices. And that they aren&#x27;t available. And that they don&#x27;t overclock. And... And...<p>As I said, I wish there was something that was actually vaguely what I wanted (a desktop processor that&#x27;s &lt;=4 cores, and focused on single-core CPU performance). The Xeon isn&#x27;t it.<p>Also:<p>&gt;  if you&#x27;re concerned about tdp, you&#x27;re probably not going to be overclocking anyways.<p>In a desktop overclocking is a large chunk of the reason why one would be concerned about TDP!