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tp4tissue:
Tp4 extremely tempted by sale on AIO, arctic 360 for $90.
If only these things were (easily) refillable.
tp4tissue:
Let's talk about power phases.
24 phases for vCore in the form of 110 A Renesas R2209004 SPS,
870e Taichi, a $400 motherboard.
If you have a motherboard capable of 24x110A, 2640 amps.
The most power hungry CPU you can possibly put into the socket is only 200 amp.
Then you're using at maximum 7.5% of the VRM capacity. This is inefficient utilization because Powerstages like to be around 20-30% utilization, giving its highest efficiency. Even assuming they might have a mechanism to turn off phases, it's A huge waste of money for the end user.
They also put a big expensive heatsink on there when with so many phases, they can run completely passive.
Powerstages around 88% + efficient, in the 15-30% range they are 95%+.
Motherboard market is stupid, when VRMs are entirely Decorative, and you can't even see them, because they're under a heatsink.
You realistically only need 8 of those 110sps chips, so assuming they can get these at $8 a pop, that's 16x$8 + cap + inductor + route, conservatively $150-170 worth of "decorative components."
tp4tissue:
5060ti what an awful card. Tp4 hates 5060ti only slightly less than maximum hate for 4060ti.
But he hates 8gb vram most of all.
tp4tissue:
Big scandal. Latest crop of Asrock 8series motherboards apparently Overvolts and kills people's cpus.
It's probably not overvolt, as volts don't kill cpus, Amps kill cpus.
tp4tissue:
Ohhh hohohohoho... Intel going new socket. Surprise Surprise, The ol' new socket every CPU architecture. Here we go..
But they must be pretty confident of the performance, since it's a big ask. Everyone that got 285 and 265 got scrood.
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