Quote Originally Posted by Scaniris View Post
And last thing: if this component is critical, why don't we have any monitoring of it? I mean if this component was critical and subject to high temps, ATI would have probably put a sensor on it? I don't know ... maybe?
It's an inductor, a passive component. Basically, it's a coil of wire, that stores energy in switching circuits. It's rated up to 125 deg C per the datasheet.