The Sorcerer
oh wow...Xenforo!!!
You're checking out 780g chipsets. Don't go that far unless you have the intention to buy them. If you have whitelisted the chipsets you decided to buy on, checking out the power consumption of these boards with such chipsets helps. That should help you reducing your doubts.
To aid everyone in your self research (lol no way I am going to spoonfeed anyone, grow up and do some self research the hard way like I did by using my comments as reference. This way next time when someone asks you for help, you will start to think about these factors by default):
If you want proper explanation (I'll still keep it very short) you need to know the series of events involving the phase-game, we need to go back to the intel p45 days when 2 companies bragged about 12 power phase and all that, then one of them putting up vids/photos against the other (indirectly) that its not an actual 12 phase being used on the board (P 45 days). The another had about 8+2 phases but the phase quality was useless. Both were corrected after pointing/bashing by many users (and very handful of reviewers)that they were not 12 phase at all.
If you see x58's phase trends, its somewhat the same but as companies removed the brand/specs on the phase, it becomes difficult to know what kinda/quality phase is used. For example, x58a-UD7 rev 1.0 came with 24 phase design (True phase design? Unlikey but I can't say as I've haven't looked past UD3R/sabertooth as this fulfills most user's needs/requirements and I am not sure if GBT bragged it as true Phase. I think asus has an one intel board with loads of VRMs almost surrounding the socket
) but then X58A UD7 rev 2.0 came with 16 phases (but maybe they are better ones- again no specs of those phase mentioned so can't say).
Same thing was done when phase game was on AMD but many also questioned how can a 4 pin atx supply power to a power hungry processor. Majority of the companies removed the brand/specs on the phase. This arguement however was highlighted by few but respected sources (xtreme systems and anandtech which has over 1 million readers being one of them) and was shortlived, resulting the phase marketing was reduced dramtically in newer chipsets. You still this in fewer boards, but the numbers have reduced compared to before.
that's why you see *some* companies/series being truthful that what they use is actually a 4 or 6+1.
MSI wasn't involved in this bandwagon during the time, concentrated more on those weird copper coiled passive heatsinks and Dr. MOS, then OC genie.
Read dude, read the previous comments carefully.
To aid everyone in your self research (lol no way I am going to spoonfeed anyone, grow up and do some self research the hard way like I did by using my comments as reference. This way next time when someone asks you for help, you will start to think about these factors by default):
If you want proper explanation (I'll still keep it very short) you need to know the series of events involving the phase-game, we need to go back to the intel p45 days when 2 companies bragged about 12 power phase and all that, then one of them putting up vids/photos against the other (indirectly) that its not an actual 12 phase being used on the board (P 45 days). The another had about 8+2 phases but the phase quality was useless. Both were corrected after pointing/bashing by many users (and very handful of reviewers)that they were not 12 phase at all.
If you see x58's phase trends, its somewhat the same but as companies removed the brand/specs on the phase, it becomes difficult to know what kinda/quality phase is used. For example, x58a-UD7 rev 1.0 came with 24 phase design (True phase design? Unlikey but I can't say as I've haven't looked past UD3R/sabertooth as this fulfills most user's needs/requirements and I am not sure if GBT bragged it as true Phase. I think asus has an one intel board with loads of VRMs almost surrounding the socket
) but then X58A UD7 rev 2.0 came with 16 phases (but maybe they are better ones- again no specs of those phase mentioned so can't say). Same thing was done when phase game was on AMD but many also questioned how can a 4 pin atx supply power to a power hungry processor. Majority of the companies removed the brand/specs on the phase. This arguement however was highlighted by few but respected sources (xtreme systems and anandtech which has over 1 million readers being one of them) and was shortlived, resulting the phase marketing was reduced dramtically in newer chipsets. You still this in fewer boards, but the numbers have reduced compared to before.
that's why you see *some* companies/series being truthful that what they use is actually a 4 or 6+1.
MSI wasn't involved in this bandwagon during the time, concentrated more on those weird copper coiled passive heatsinks and Dr. MOS, then OC genie.
Read dude, read the previous comments carefully.
. and after comparing yes the layout is different. Is GMA good at OCing?
