[SOLVED] g4400 only using 18 watt???

Solution
Yes, but in the chicken/egg part of this, it's the TDP where it starts, not the cooler--which is what you were implying.
TDP literally means thermal design power and intel itself defines it as the number for people to choose the appropriate cooling for.
When you see several tiers of CPUs with the exact same TDP it's super obvious that they just don't bother with figuring out the real TDP for each one and making different coolers for each if they can just provide one TDP and one cooler for all of them.

https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/support/articles/000055611/processors.html
What is the purpose of TDP?
The purpose of defining TDP is to provide system designers/integrators with a power target in...
Celeron, pentium, i3, all at 51w.
The point is that the TDP is just a cooler level recommendation for skylake.
It's impossible for all of those CPUs to use the same amount of power for full load.
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Yes, but in the chicken/egg part of this, it's the TDP where it starts, not the cooler--which is what you were implying.
TDP literally means thermal design power and intel itself defines it as the number for people to choose the appropriate cooling for.
When you see several tiers of CPUs with the exact same TDP it's super obvious that they just don't bother with figuring out the real TDP for each one and making different coolers for each if they can just provide one TDP and one cooler for all of them.

https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/support/articles/000055611/processors.html
What is the purpose of TDP?
The purpose of defining TDP is to provide system designers/integrators with a power target in order to help with proper thermal solution selection.
 
Solution
TDP literally means thermal design power and intel itself defines it as the number for people to choose the appropriate cooling for.
When you see several tiers of CPUs with the exact same TDP it's super obvious that they just don't bother with figuring out the real TDP for each one and making different coolers for each if they can just provide one TDP and one cooler for all of them.

https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/support/articles/000055611/processors.html
Knowing what I know about what engineers do when dealing with materials sciences (my dad was a mechanical engineer), I highly doubt that the TDP for all the specific products isn't known. But it probably made more financial sense to simply label all of them the same and provide the same cooling since individual cooling solutions for each product was more expensive in the end. Kind of like putting a 95w cooler on a 65w cpu--overkill, but if the 95w cooler is cheaper than a 65w one, why not?