Firstly TDP is rarely from most companies stated as max power draw, and no reviews, which all test for power, highlighted it. AS with ANY product, you can get a faulty chip that has a faulty part that for some reason is running higher voltage.
Multiple mobo's have been found to slightly over or under volt cpu's, this affects power draws, lastly, its MSI, who says MSI haven't made a dodgy board that overvolts all cpu's and is covering their ass by blaming someone else?
Intel is due to release a bunch of new chips with a 7W SDP(s, or something, they "made" a new tdp and called it something else) when infact, they are simply 13W cpu's pretending to be something else. Actually I forget their numbering scheme, it may be 17W tdp chips pretending to be 13W, maybe its both.
TDP is whatever AMD list it as, max power usage with X setup under Y conditions using Z loading program. Maybe it uses more under prime, and recommends not to use it.
Intel list TDP which ISN'T the max power draw.... welcome to life, its all marketing buzzwords to make PR people happy to spout off facts. Nvidia for donkeys years lied about products "a 480gtx uses 250W" while everyone found it used a lot more, etc, etc, etc. AMD are one of the last, afaik, people who list TDP as maximum powerdraw(unless they've changed it with piledriver release which they may have).
But considering MSI haven't publically accused AMD of making their boards dangerous and alerting customers with a public recall I'll go with, either complete excuse for their own dodgy board/bios or infact we have no idea if that e-mail is real, I'll file this under the "who gives a damn" heading.
EDIT:- also worth highlighting a 2500-3700k is a quad core chip, half the size done on either 32 or 22nm, at 32nm is way smaller, at 22nm its even smaller. Intel has eleventy billion to spend on process R&D, chip R&D and keeping ahead of the rest of the industry on processes, AMD doesn't. Also worth noting is the response from the guy who posted the e-mail, his take is that MSI are selling a board that can't support what they say it can, not blaming AMD. Mobo's undespeccing their cheapest boards to save money, and getting caught cutting to close, then coming up with how it isn't their fault, isn't new. Why aren't they telling him to get a replacement from AMD are ask AMD for a refund, but offering to help him out by getting a more expensive(properly specced) mobo from them? Blame AMD, give them a working product, hope no one notices they screwed up.
99% of people who use computers never come close to using max load or pushing the spec which is why the cheapest mobo's tend to get way way to close to the limit or cut underneath it in hope of making a little more profit.
