Yeah, but the mobo manufacturer has to plan on you putting in the thirstiest chips on there, when you might be putting lower end chips on because your workload is mostly memory or PCI channel constrained and you are looking to max out the density in the rack.
Of course you also have to consider the cooling capacity of your chassis. 170W in a 1U form factor needs a hell of a lot of airflow to avoid thermal throttling, especially on a dual CPU motherboard. Plus you gotta fit the power supply and everything else in there.
Of course you also have to consider the cooling capacity of your chassis. 170W in a 1U form factor needs a hell of a lot of airflow to avoid thermal throttling, especially on a dual CPU motherboard. Plus you gotta fit the power supply and everything else in there.