lamedude Wrote:I don't know how much the on die VRM negates the need for fancy 10 phase power. Seeing how much W these CPUs take at those high clock speeds a board designed for 84w might not take kindly to 1.5x-2x that.
They pretty much all come with at least 8 phase these days. And that's sufficient to push haswell so high that cooling becomes your limiting factor unless you have LN2. So yes the cheap H and B series boards could overclock haswell just as well if it wasn't for this "patch".
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-Mark Antony