Re: Questions about VRM

Any opinions on those red caps?

Re: Questions about VRM

Well, increasing vcore increases the amount of heat the cores will generate.

Basically you start at stock, and find out how high you can get the CPU to go, and then increment the vcore and try again. Eventually you'll hit a wall where additional vcore either doesn't give a great deal of improvement, or it generates too much heat for your cooling to deal with.

I expect the cpu to continue going faster with more vcore up to the limit of the board, which is 1.58V I've been told. I wouldn't want to go above 1.6V anyway.
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Re: Questions about VRM

I've managed to get a much better picture....

I'm in the process of upgrading my PC. A new radiator is going in, and new blocks for a new motherboard. Memory and CPU stay the same.

I have an Opteron 185, and it's watercooled. As far as processors go this will draw the most current from the motherboard and put the most stress on the VRMs of any socket 939 CPU.

Currently I'm running an Abit AN8 Fatal1ty. I have no idea if it has bad caps or not, it doesn't matter since it's going to be replaced. I can't really tell what phase the board is. At a guess I'd say 4, since there's 4 circular components with copper wire...