4+1 vs. 8+2(8+1) Phase Power Design

[Smartidiot89]

afa8ik there is not true 8 phase PWM......they are all 4+4+2 or whatever....thats how it works.......ati once made an extremely well laid out true 6 phase back in rd 480 580 days.....

Feels like I am nagging, but how about the ASUS Crosshair IV Formula? Is that also a 4+1 + 4+1 phase design?

And what about those Intel board with 24 and even 32 phases are those 6 and even 8 pairs of 4-phase designs? Seems kinda stupid to me... Not disbelieving you, I am sure this kind of marketing works great.

[haylui]

Feels like I am nagging, but how about the ASUS Crosshair IV Formula? Is that also a 4+1 + 4+1 phase design?

And what about those Intel board with 24 and even 32 phases are those 6 and even 8 pairs of 4-phase designs? Seems kinda stupid to me... Not disbelieving you, I am sure this kind of marketing works great.

IMO, if they make the power phase parallel, it helps when you up the voltage to a certain level since the current were shared by more MOSFET, those MOSFET definitely would run cooler than lesser phase