I love people saying its a waste and too much power blahblah.

It isn't going to pull /320w/ all the time. It will periodically, under certain loads, briefly.

My i9-13900K happily slams into 6.4ghz across multiple cores when doing things. And power usage rarely actually hits ~230w doing that. I only ever see absurd power usage under really heavy work loads. Most of the time, itll hit its peaks on a couple of cores when I am doing something and thats that. I would rather slightly higher peak-y power usage for a more performance.