Quote Originally Posted by Opteron146 View Post
Sounds good, but what about the MOSFETs? They advertise with 12+2 phases, but that ChiL chip can only handle 6 or 8. Which chip is it? The 8326 or the 8328? I heard once, that mainboard manufacturers always use a 2way parallel setup, i.e. the mainboard should have 12+2 divided by 2 (real) phases, thus 7.

Anyways I am puzzled if these are of the same quality as the chips Gigabyte or MSI are using. Gigabyte is often advertising with ferrit chokes and low-rds mosfets, while MSI advertised "DrMos", which is probably not bad either. I don't like all that marketing BS, but low-rds sounds good, as these mosfets are not heating up as much, if I understood it correctly.

Anyways, in short: Can you give a quality rating for AsRock's mosfets?

Thanks

Opteron

P.S: And yes, AsRock's BIOS support is one of the best, you can actually talk to someone, and even better, you get a reply ! ;-)

It's the CHiL 8328 and yes it's "only" seven phases. 6 for the CPU cores and 1 for the CPU-NB. All phases have two chokes (=14 chokes).
Actually I can't describe the quality of the components but it's not DrMOS. I can only tell you that the CPU voltages are rock stable
which is very rare nowadays unfortunately.

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