Quote Originally Posted by Particle View Post
In this case, I'd be most worried about most boards with only four power phases and those without a heatsink on the MOSFETs. This same system only pulls about 175W idle in a lower vCore configuration, so ALL of that differential is being dumped as heat into the heatsink (minus 25ish percent lost in the PSU and CPU power regulators). We're talking somewhere over 200 watts for the CPU (all heat). This particular board even has vCore options in the BIOS all the way into the 1.8V range, so it is probably designed for a little abuse.

If anything, I'm most impressed with this Tuniq Tower 120 Extreme.
Oh, I see. My MSI 890GXM-G65 only has four phases, but the heatsink over the MOSFETs has a "140W Ready" sticker. Budget? It's probably budget because it's a 890GX board but I don't know.