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zoson · 09-19-2004, 04:10 AM

Reading this, my 8k7a+ came to mind... :O 2 phase power... It's a small wonder the board blew up so many times, and it's a miracle that it ran so fast.

You know what? Everyone bitches about keeping the mofets cool at high frequency. Yet we already see MANY motherboard manufacturers adding cooling solutions to them. This brings up an interesting question: Are the power designs going to get even worse simply because we're treating symptoms with brute force cooling? "hey! we can save money by making a two phase solution again and cooling it with an obnoxious 'overclocking' feature!"

This also opens up an interesting new DIY idea for those who have the experience. Can we get schematics for these power supplies, and can we effectively analyze and FIX the problem ourselves? Personally, when I was taking VLSI I could barely follow the examples our professor gave. I can't imagine having to look at a design I know nothing about and fix it.

09-19-2004, 04:10 AM	#18
zoson Cooling Savant Join Date: Nov 2001 Location: X Posts: 204	Reading this, my 8k7a+ came to mind... :O 2 phase power... It's a small wonder the board blew up so many times, and it's a miracle that it ran so fast. You know what? Everyone bitches about keeping the mofets cool at high frequency. Yet we already see MANY motherboard manufacturers adding cooling solutions to them. This brings up an interesting question: Are the power designs going to get even worse simply because we're treating symptoms with brute force cooling? "hey! we can save money by making a two phase solution again and cooling it with an obnoxious 'overclocking' feature!" This also opens up an interesting new DIY idea for those who have the experience. Can we get schematics for these power supplies, and can we effectively analyze and FIX the problem ourselves? Personally, when I was taking VLSI I could barely follow the examples our professor gave. I can't imagine having to look at a design I know nothing about and fix it. __________________ Core i7 930 @ 4254Hz 22x193 \| ASUS R3E 901 BIOS \| 12GB Mushkin Blackline 3x4GB @ 1547MHz 7-8-7-24-1N \| Lian Li PC-A10B 2x EVGA GTX275 SLI @ 720/1266/1566 \| 2x 80GB Intel X25-M G2 SSD Raid 0 \| 3x 1TB Samsung Spinpoint 7.2K Raid 5 \| Corsair 950TX H2O \| Enzotech Sapphire Rev.A \| EK-FB RE3 \| Swiftech - 2x MCW60/GTX275 Unisink, MCP655b, MCRes Micro.v2 \| 3x HWLabs SR1-120 あなたの神への弓 Time isn't wasted, when you're gettin' wasted.