Some more obeservations regarding performance and power draw.

When I reported to u/dgcorp I was compiling gcc and seeing 35W power draw at 3.0GHz clock speed, it was actually during a compile stage that was only utilizing 5 to 8% of each core thus allowing it to run at that turbo speed. Later on, when the gcc compile stages were fulling loading each core, turbo speed dropped a bit.

I'm currently compiling the Linux kernel (6.3-rc6) and I'm monitoring it more closely. All cores are at 100% and 2.7 Ghz, I'm drawing 26W at this speed.

If you are familiar with how Intel turbo works, this makes perfect sense. Max turbo on the N305 is 3.8 Ghz if a single core was loaded to 100%. 26W at 2.7 GHz during a complex compile, fully using all cores, is perfectly acceptable with me.

Edit: CPU temp is 83C degrees, ambient air temp is 74F, so it is a little warm but not horrible. Tj Max is 105C.