can anyone explain to what extend the benefit of this ferrite core choke & low rds mosfets??

Source : http://www.vr-zone.com/?i=4832

sounds interesting...if not mistaken, gigabyte was the first company to introduce solid caps on mobo's...and then after that other mobo manufacturers quickly follow them....

the power of a good marketing team...just look at cisco...lol

I'm a supersaiyaman.

I'm ma charging my laser!!!!

Are gigabyte making those diagram for down syndrome ppl?

Back on topic:

GOOD IDEA .... but is it really needed?

I thought there's this company called Iwill that sell cap-less mobo for industrial use.

BTW, it's a simple but useful idea, some sort of simple approach to better innovation. No wonder ASUS merge with them.

Gigabyte been always put a lot of efforts in R&D field
Nice idea there

another great tech from gigabyte~!

Nice technology,less heat of course more power efficiency. Heat is one of the main factor of the overclocking goes higher.

Yup
Heat issues always d main problem faced by overclockers
This heat issue really give a great challenge to hardware manufacturer esp those vendors who pre-overclock their products

Gigabyte has quality ...cannot deny. But expect to pay for it.

Doesn't make sense. You mean all they did was change a bloody inductor? Gimme a soldering iron and i'll give you the same thing. And unless the PWM switchers are fking terrible, capacitance is low or the feedback loop is whack, why in god's name would you need to have a discharge FET?

And of course the extra FET will consume more power. And this has the undertones of a well planned cost cut. Why? Simple, because Polymer electrolytic caps have very low voltage tolerance even lower capacitance values. This usually isn't an issue in the arena of standard high quality electrolytics, but remember that polymer's cost is so much higher as you go up in the voltage and capacitance arena, so coupled with a bad feedback loop, the capacitor will have to discharge or risk becoming a total short.

Edit : Why the emphasis on high frequency anyways? If the PWM does it's job worth a damn, this shouldn't matter because it should damn well be near DC. How energy efficiency is affected i don't know. I don't know how reliability is affected either because all inductors or chokes have their reliability depend on the quality of the winding coat, so i call bullshit.

This post has been edited by empire23: Mar 22 2007, 04:00 PM

having a choke is a nice idea, stabilize the power input like a flouroscent lamp does............ this may prolong lifecycle time of the CPU .......

may be they will introduce this feature as selling point for server 1st.......then only overclockers

Even current mainboards all have chokes. It's nothing new. They're just marketing their solution of using better quality materials than others.