Originally Posted by doompc The 2 addition phases are exclusive for the internal northbridge (like the "uncore" part on Nehalem, the IMC and the L3 cache). Its for memory actually. Extreme Engine - 16-phase CPU power design - 3-phase NB power design - 2-phase DDR3 power design This is just a LGA775 example for the most extreme. The other one is CPU(8) and memory(2).
Last edited by Shintai; 11-21-2008 at 12:49 PM.
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